Quotes from John Scalzi

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone. Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss meaning something to someone, having that part of being human. That's what I miss about marriage.

Fear isn't the desire to avoid death or pain. Fear is rooted in the knowledge that what you recognize as yourself can cease to exist.

The mattress on the bunk was two centimeters thick and apparently made out of particleboard and despair

in a decade you'll be eighty-five, and then the only difference between you and a raisin will be that while you're both wrinkled and without a prostate, the raisin never had a prostate to begin with.

People will eat cheeseburgers, but very few people will eat crap. Don't serve up crap.

There's actually an exponential relationship that I could show you, but—" "Yeah, yeah, I know, I don't have the math," Ed said.

Hul loitered in the general cabin, and six fellow members of the Fflict species as the rescue team. The Fflict recognized five genders: male, female, zhial, yal, and neuter. Aul was zhial, and ze liked zis pronouns accurately stated. I would too, in zis position.

allow me to share with you my philosophy of human beings. It can be summed up in four words: I like good people. You seem like good people. I can't say that's all that matters to everyone, but it's what matters to me.

In ground forces, when someone does you a favor you tell them you owe them a sex act. If it's a little thing, it's a handjob. Medium, blowjob. Big favor, you owe them a fuck. Force of habit. It's just an expression. Got it, Dahl said. No actual blowjob forthcoming, Duvall said. To be clear. It's the thought that counts.

But my car upholstery was a small price to pay for interplanetary peace.

What happens if the plan doesn't work and our ships are shot out of the sky?" I asked. "Well, then I suppose we're fucked, Perry

We should be focused on saving the Interdependency from collapse. Instead we're playing palace intrigues. It's pointless. It's wasteful. And it's going to end in our ruin.

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No one thinks of it as an epidemic. It's just the cost of doing business. The cost of living our lives. Haden's syndrome has become that now. A chronic disease of our nation, and of the planet.

apparently mutiny is in the DNA, like eye color or a tendency toward irritable bowels.

With sentences, shorter is better than longer:

Really rich folks do a lot of reputational transactions. ... Rich people show their appreciation through favors, I said. When everyone you know has more money than they know what to do with, money stops being a useful transactional tool. So instead you offer favors. Deals. Quids pro quos. Things that involve personal involvement rather than money. Because when you're that rich, your personal time is your limiting factor.

I'm not even one year old," Jared said. "I can be a baby if I want.

So they sealed Earth off from the rest of humanity to keep the people there from knowing just how perfectly they're being held in stasis. Manufactured a disease-they called it the Crimp-and told the people on Earth it was an alien infection. Used it as an excuse to quarantine the planet. They let it flare up every generation or two just to maintain the pretense.

Confidence isn't about knowing you're right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right. You have doubts because it makes sense for you to have doubts. Just like it made sense for me to have doubts. But remember the plan is not the goal.

Confidence isn't about knowing you're right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right. You have doubts because it makes sense for you to have doubts. Just like it made sense for me to have doubts. But remember the plan is not the goal. What is your goal?

the assumption that simple = stupid. But it's not true; indeed, I find from personal experience that the stupidest writers are the ones whose writing is positively baroque in form.

Hell, this administration has been busy enough trying to trade in our rights to make us more like everyone else!

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