Quotes from David Gerrold

I applaud your various successes in making this case a collosal nightmare. I promise to reward each and every one of you appropriately.

There were times when I loved my brother because he was such a brat.

Yeshua ben Yusef

think I loved my Danny more. And I think I know why.

Pope Sixtus the Fifth?

Every baby born is a gamble, but that doesn't stop the human race from making babies, does it?

It was all supposed to be reassuring-but it wasn't. Not really.

We are asking the court recognize the right of the individuals to create a family contract of their own design, immune to the arbitary harassment and legal abuses of others.

Well, it's about you and Mom. Chigger and I were talking-and well, I mean-you are kidnapping us, aren't you, Dad?

I thought for a moment Dad was finally going to say something that would make a difference. But maybe not, because he just let Weird change the subject without even noticing how unfinished I still felt.

You said something once, Charles, that has stayed in my head like a ball bearing bouncing around the inside of an empty steel drum. You said that it was your family too, and nobody ever asked you what you wanted. Well, this is me asking you. All of you.

Lots of people still wore pants and jumpsuits and worksuits of all kinds, but the longshirt is a permanent part of Hella's culture.

Your motion is still denied, but I just want you to know I'm very impressed with your creativity.

everybody's walking around saying stupid shit like, "hey man, where's it happening?" and you have no fucking idea how dumb that sounds, it's like admitting you're so lost you cant even see the party even when it's happening around you, it was happening everywhere and it wasnt happening anywhere, because whatever was happening, it was only happening when you made it happen, but most of us never learned that lesson

Nobody was anything anymore.

This time it's our turn to have the good idea.

Let him be, Dad," Weird said. "It's not your fault if Chigger wants to be a sociopath. You can blame it on Mom.

There's this general feeling in the Hella Colony that we'll never conquer the planet if we hide behind the fences of Summerland Station. So we have to go ourselves, smell the air and taste the world. We have to feel the dirt between our fingers. If we are ever going to make this planet ours, we have to give up our fear of it and get into a genuinely courageous relationship. That's what Captain Skyler says.

Hellacious has a whole new meaning here.

It's okay, Kyle. It's only air. You breathe it all the time. It's the same air we have at home.

I can type very fast, sometimes even faster than I can think of what to type.

It's a private thing, that even if it wasn't, I wouldn't talk about it because it makes people uncomfortable to know I have a super-power. That's what Jamie calls it. A super-power. I still call it the noise.

We were swimmers in a dusty yellow smell and sometimes overpower with the occasional stink of dung. If it was from a herbivore, the dung would have a grassy smell. If it was from a predator, it had a darker stink, sometimes so bad I could smell it in the helmet. Some of the piles of dung were as tall as Marley and moist though fortunately not steaming that would have meant we were way close to something dangerous.

Even in the middle of a crisis, he had to be accurate.