Quotes About Scalzi

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

Personally speaking, when everything is boiled down to the marrow, I think the reason Reddit tolerates the creepy forums has to do with money more than anything else.

If you're the best that the Earth has got to offer, it's time we bend over and get a tentacle right up the ass.

It was a very cozy meeting. In addition to my role as visitor liaison, I was also, once again, supervising snacks.

Well, I'm sorry my telling the truth about the stupid things you do is inconvenient for you

The diagnostic said there was nothing wrong with the threep, which may have meant there was something wrong with the diagnostic.

We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole. This sounds like just the sort of thing an asshole writer would do.

You suggested this to her, didn't you." "Why do you say that?" "Because I don't know if you've ever met the Countess Nohamapetan, but she's about as sentimental as a fucking alligator.

Having Monday be Pizza Day subverts the natural order of things.

There aren't a lot of people who can carry off petty," I said. "Yet somehow you do.

Zoë's tonsils for once." Magdy was

No one wants you to apologize," Catherine said. "And you know we all have an interest in politics." "I don't," Wes said. "We all have an interest in politics except for Wes

Thought I'd ask," I said. "It was worth a shot." "Not really

You're insane! Call me HAL and make me sing 'Daisy, Daisy'.

The doors opened. We shuffled out, stepped through the doorway onto the gangplank, and were immediately swarmed by apparently all the small flying insects that ever existed in the history of the universe.

There's actually an exponential relationship that I could show you, but—" "Yeah, yeah, I know, I don't have the math," Ed said.

were technically their security detail. Chen, who was new

Fundamentally, there's no connection between whether someone is personally nice and whether they pursue an agenda inimical to what you perceive as desirable.

I'm not insane, sir," I said. "I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

I'm glad you have Senia, Kiva." "I'm glad too," Kiva said. "Although that was fucking unexpected." "Love often is," Grayland said.

Seems like an irrelevant detail," Schmidt said. "And you call yourself a scientist," Wilson said. "No, I don't," Schmidt said. "Good thing, then," Wilson said.

I had been escorted into a conference room with more brass in it than an eighteenth-century schooner.

Sorvalh stopped walking and stood calmly at the frontier of the colony of Deliverance.