Quotes from John Scalzi

I had a feeling that as long as I didn't admit to murdering adorable kittens in front of children, I was going to get the gig.

It was nice when you could look up to your parent, even as an adult, and think, This is who I fucking want to be when I grow up.

Let's still not ever do this again, Wilson said to himself. Agreed, himself said back.

Por supuesto, nada de todo esto tiene el menor sentido si te detienes a pensarlo —añadió Hester. —Nunca lo ha tenido.

basing an entire system of social, political and economic control on the vague, all-too-easily misinterpreted words of a single person claiming divine inspiration is probably not actually all that smart, now, is it.

When you're actively hostile toward ninety-six percent of all the intelligent races you know about, that's not just stupid. It's racial suicide.

Apparently a 'go-getter.'" "What does that mean?" "I think it means he was an asshole

Estaba pensando. En eso de ser ficticio y tal.

Tom grinned through his mask; I saw it through the eye crinkles

Samantha smiles again and puts her arm around Nick as they walk.

Composting Engineer"?" I said, leaning forward in my seat. "That's what it says," Lo said. "It's a polite way of saying you'll be shoveling shit.

Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough

Oh, and maybe I should say what my name is. Just for the record. It's Rafe. Rafe Daquin. I'm Rafe Daquin, and I'm a brain in a box. Hi.

I want to make one thing clear. I do not like, nor will I ever like, any one of you. Why? Because I know that despite the fine work of myself and my staff, you will inevitably make all of us look bad. It pains me.

I have some people here who would very much like to do that to me," Grayland said. "Overthrow me, I mean." "I would recommend against it," Chenevert advised. "Not a great career move?" "It frees up your schedule, which is honestly fantastic. But the people who removed you then usually want to kill you too. And that's inconvenient.

Such attitude," I said to Jane. "She gets it from your side." "She's adopted," Jane said. "And I'm not the smart-ass in the family.

If you can't write a comment that isn't ultimately a segue into topics you feel are important, ask yourself why everything has to be about you.

Journalists, bless our black little hearts, are petty and vindictive and love to flog our hallowed journalism ethics whenever there's some momentary advantage and/or amusement value in doing so.

They have vegan cheese." "No, they don't. They have shredded orange and white sadness that mocks cheese and everything it stands for.

Alex Roentgen twisted again, faced the ground that would kill him, and screamed the scream of the abandoned.

What did you all name your BrainPals? Asshole, I said. Bitch, Jesse said. Dickward, said Thomas. Fuckhead, said Harry. Satan, said Maggie. Sweetie, said Susan. Apparantly, I'm the only one who likes my BrainPal.

It was the 'he likes someone else and now I'm sad and want to go eat an entire pie' thing.

Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals

Are you insane? You can't just barge into my office and tell people to fuck off.""And yet here I am," Kiva said. "In your office. Telling this extraneous dimwit to fuck off.