Peter David Quotes

When...has a mugging case ever heard a defense attorney claim, 'Your Honor, the victim was dressed in an Armani suit and wearing a Rolex. Clearly he was begging to be assaulted.'

Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter.

We're all of us dying . . . from the moment we're born

There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.

If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.

...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.

As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.

If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I was reasonably sure that we'd get positive notices.

In terms of actual audience numbers, I honestly had no idea what to expect [with 'Treachery' ]. It was, after all, not a superhero title.

At conventions, one of the standard questions I get is, 'Are you writing any new novels?' To which I used to respond, in my smart-[alec] fashion, 'No, I've decided to write only old novels.'

And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it.

I guess it really had been brave . . . because it was so bugger-all stupid, and if there was one thing I'd come to realize, ti was that bravery and bugger-all stupidity went hand in hand.

I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.

It seemed to me that, no matter what endeavor I was involved in, I was to be something of a sham.

Running from horrors doesn't help. The only way to deal with them is to meet them head-on.

Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it.

Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.

Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

There are some for whom the good of mankind is their primary concern, and others who basically put their own considerations before everyone else. I was among the latter.

Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.

Apropos, you're going to have to learn to sooner or later that you can't just let other people decide what the world around you should and shouldn't be.