Quotes About Scott

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

A second appeal of relativism comes from the way it is presented. Frequently relativism is presented as though it and its opposite, absolutism, are the only two valid alternatives.

It's not the fear of writing that blocks people, it's the fear of not writing well; something quite different.

Figure 12.1: Maximal Entropy and Maximal Variance

preventing riots depends less on reducing average levels of discontent than on appeasing people at the extreme.

Surely you realize," said Patience, "that cats are no great respecters of human opinion.

I was badly misinformed, I deeply regret the error, go fuck yourself with this bag of money.

It's easy to prescribe remedies for our own weaknesses when they're comfortably ensconced in other people.

We carry your precious misery with us like a holy fucking relic.

My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.

That's great, Jean. I'm not just exiled; I'm being plumped up for slaughter.

Have we been neglecting our prayers this week? Did one of us fart in a temple or something?

It's easy to prescribe remedies for our own weaknesses when they're comfortably ensconced in other people. What

There's a few things I want to ask him. Philosophical questions. Like, 'How does it feel to be dangled out a window by a rope tied around your balls, motherfucker?

Q: What's a pirate's favorite style of music? A: Aaaaargh & B.

neck. Loves country music—Merle and Waylon

You have to really dislike someone to impose a sentence of involuntary and uncompensated writing on them.

My thermograph got nothing," he said. "I think that place is deader than Bob Dole's dick.

DeVontay Jones chuckled behind her. "What were you going to do with that blade? Make us some chicken pot pie?" She replaced her machete and

priests seem to be either dead or Zap." DeVontay shouldered his M16 and caught up with her so they could walk

For a long time I called it Otter as I had called Rontu, Dog. Then I decided to give the otter a name. The name was Mon-a-nee, which means Little Boy with Large Eyes.

Don, this is really messed up right here." "We need to hurry," Don said. "The appetizer is the only thing already dead, so you'll want to fill up on that.