John Scalzi Quotes
I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.
I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.
Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.
When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.
There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.
Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.
You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.
My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.
It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.
I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.
Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people into watching the money shot.
The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat
If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.
If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.
I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.
Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.
Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; its a privately owned space on the Internet.
Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.
Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.
Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.
I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.
I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.
When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.
GamerGate is about harassing, threatening and silencing women. Started that way, has been that way all along. Dont pretend otherwise.
I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.
Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.
Making peace is often a simple thing, but simple isn’t the same thing as easy.
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.
Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritious part of a complete breakfast).
Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races.
She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star.