Quotes from Joe Haldeman

Some are born crazy," Amelia said. "Some achieve craziness. We had craziness thrust upon us.

I watched her walk away and thought that if anybody could make a fighting suit look sexy, it'd be Sean. But even she couldn't.

O tÃ…â"¢i mÄ›síce pozdÄ›ji jsem byl navzdory vÅ¡emu Å¡Å¥astný, že nás trénovali tak tvrdÄ›. Základní vojenský výcvik dohnal nÄ›které z nás k úplné krizi, k totálnímu stresu, ale proti podmínkám skute?ného boje to poÃ…â"¢ád byla procházka r?žovou zahradou.

H]is skin was the color of age and his features the shape of a saint's.

then unleashed Stargate's 18 sex-starved men on our women, compliant and promiscuous by military custom and law...

Science fiction as a genre has the benefit of being able to act as parable, to set up a story at a remove so you can make a real-world point without people throwing up a wall in front of

One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.

There may or may not be a God, but if there is one, I wouldn't want to have him over for dinner.

A square meter of earth, Dostoevski said; if all you had was a square meter of earth to stand on, and nothing around you but impenetrable fog, living would be preferable to dying.

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And it was making me a little queasy. Doctors don't seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

Florida and half of Georgia comprised a trigger-happy xenophobic lunatic asylum.

I have a radical thought," Meryl said. "Instead of heading for the hills with guns, why don't we try to find something like the Red Cross, and volunteer. Try to do something constructive.

The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else.

Back in the twentieth century, they had established to everybody's satisfaction that 'I was just following orders' was an inadequate excuse for inhuman contact … but what can you do when the orders come from deep down in that puppet master of the unconscious?

love was an unstable reaction with a half-life of about eight months. Bullshit, I said, and accused him of wearing cultural blinders; thirty centuries of prewar society taught that love was one thing that could last to the grave and even beyond

He formed a Masturbation Club and didn't allow anybody else to join.

Lumea este alc?tuit? din toate soiurile de oameni. O armat? e alc?tuit? din mai pu?ine soiuri.

Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there … the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

He spread his hands in a gesture more Gallic than Oriental.

here we were, fifty men and fifty women, with IQs over 150 and bodies of unusual health and strength, slogging elitely through the mud and slush of central Missouri, reflecting on the usefulness of our skill in building bridges on worlds where the only fluid is an occasional standing pool of liquid helium.

Guvernul trebuia s? se ocupe de cerin?ele fundamentale, iar cet??enii lucrau ca s?-?i cumpere produsele de lux dorite, care erau achitate fie cu bani pe?in, fie prin transfer de credit electronic.

Wars in the past often accelerated social reform, provided technological benefits, even sparked artistic activity. This one, however, seemed tailor-made to provide none of these positive by-products.

The person who represents a Lobby in Congress is never the one who makes the real decisions; the real leaders are rarely identifiable and are never held responsible for their actions. If a puppet gets in trouble they sacrifice him and haul out another.