Quotes from John Scalzi

A library is not information; it is a means of preserving information. In every case, before memory or information can be stored, someone must decide what must be stored. Someone must choose. Someone must curate.

This is my rife. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rife is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I have master my life. My rife, without me, is useless. Without my rife, I am useless. I must fire my rife true. I must shoot before he shoots me. And I will. - Marine Rife Creed

Which is why Mom, when she's being indiscreet, refers to the trophy room as the "vet's office." Because that's where Dad brings people to take their balls.

Whether you're an extra or the hero, this story is about to end. When it's done, whatever you want to be will be up to you and only you. It will happen away from the eyes of any audience and from the hand of any writer. You will be your own man.

In one hand I have a restraining order, and in the other I have a Taser. Which would you like to meet first?

You have no idea how difficult it was for me to not say, 'Welcome to Jurassic Park!' to all of you just now.

Other science fiction shows had science advisers and consultants, Hanson pointed out. It's science fiction, Weinstein said. The second part of that phrase matters too. But you're making it bad science fiction, Hester said. And we have to live in it.

I propose a toast. Here's to being right all the time. May God and history forgive us." They all clinked glasses to that.

There's a saying: "May you live in interesting times." To begin, it's a curse. "Interesting" in this case uniformly means "Oh god, death is raining down upon us and we shall all perish wailing and possibly on fire.

I've been told my liminal space is like the dark of the grave. But I think of it as the dark from the other end of life entirely. The dark of everything ahead, not everything behind.

I thought you liked reading books. I do, but if you only read books because you have to, it becomes much less fun.

Captain Sophia Coloma looked every inch of what she was, which was the sort of person who was not here to put up with your shit.

Well, aren't you a massive prick," I said, quietly, under the roar of the helicopter. "What?" Sanders asked. "I said, 'That's a nifty trick.

How do you like your peace now, motherfucker?

You're an interesting person, Jack. Sullivan said. I wish I could figure out what you were thinging when you punched Stern and turned on Isabel. Well, I think that's the thing. Holloway said. I think it's clear that sometimes I just don't think. I think you do. Sullivan said. It's just you think about you first. The not thinking part comes right after that.

God is a hack," he said. "He's a writer on an awful science fiction television show, and He can't plot His way out of a box. How do you have faith when you know that?

Did she tell you I set puppies on fire, too?" Vann asked. "She did not," I said. "It may have been implied.

Virtue signaling' is a phrase the dim and bigoted use when they want to discount other people expressing the idea that it would be nice if we could all be essentially and fundamentally decent to each other.

It was interesting what you could do, when your enemy was officially your ally. And unaware you knew it was your enemy.

The plan is not the goal.

In the next room, a very nice young lady, who happened to be completely naked, wanted me to tell her anything I could possibly remember about my seventh birthday party.

Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritious part of a complete breakfast).

Anyway, I might have just gone on about porn too long.

Weren't we having a mutiny?