Quotes About John Scalzi

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about, and leave someone on Earth wishing me well, than to be stubborn and have that someone hoping that some alien would slurp out my brains. Call it karmic insurance.

To everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you've already clreated the universe: Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! Heh. No.

Well, that's science fiction television for you, though, Abnett said. Someone's got to be the red shirt.

After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest black hole, so that none of its atoms would ever contaminate this particular universe again. I thought that last part was overkill.

The supply transport's on autopilot most of the way down anyway. I'm just on board so that if it crashes, they can say someone died.

After watching Star Wars everyone wanted a lightsaber and was irritated that the technology for them didn't really exist. Everyone also agreed the Ewoks should all die.

First off, to everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you've already created the universe: Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! Heh. No.

What's messed up here isn't that this guy thinks we're on a television show. What's messed up here is that as far as I can tell, at this point, it's the most rational explanation for what's going on.

How many people volunteer for an army and then claim conscientious objector status?

This brings me back to my question about my karma," Wilson said. "You probably set kittens on fire," Schmidt said. "And the rest of us were probably there with you, with skewers.

I will communicate that issue to the countess." "Do that. Also communicate to her the part where I said 'fuck you.' Make sure you phrase it precisely that way.

After watching Star Wars everyone wanted a lightsaber and was irritated that the technology for them didn't really exist. Everyone also agreed the Ewoks should all die. Two

Apparently you don't have to understand physics to protest.

That's what I'd ask you to do: Hope for peace. Because I know that I would love to be able to lay down my weapon and get to being a colonist. Just like you are. Just like I want to be.

How did you get here, anyway?" "It's classified." "I'm close enough to stab you with a fork.

Pleasure doing business with you, Chad," Holloway said, setting down the infopanel. "Please die in a fire, Jack," Bourne said.

Zoë's tonsils for once." Magdy was

Hide' isn't a word we like to use," Cassaway said. "'Perform alternative tasks' is the preferred term." "Just not in the storage room," Mbeke said. "That's our alternative tasking place." "I'll just alternatively task behind my work desk, then, shall I," Dahl said. "That's the spirit," Mbeke said. *

It's time to get you into your crawl space, if you want to be at the negotiations tomorrow without a hangover. He stood up and offered his hand to Lowen. She took it, wobbling only slightly. Whoa, she said. Someone did something to the artificial gravity. Yes, Wilson said. That's it exactly.

I looked at Fowler, who had had a bullet applied directly to her forehead.

So all of it—local and archived data—went up with the lab building." Vann glanced over to me with an expression that I suspect meant these people were sloppy.

Which one of you tased Dave?" The one directly in front of us asked. "That was me," Niamh said. "That was mean. He's new. Barely above an intern.

Maybe it's just that no one knows how to conduct a real literary feud anymore, online or otherwise.