“ Oh, God, I said. Thank you so very much for the mental image of Dad as a teenage sack of hormones. That’s the sort of image that takes therapy to get rid of. John Scalzi
“ I can't believe you just quoted a Steve Miller tune to the leader of an alien race, Van Doren, standing next to me, muttered under his breath.Shut up, I muttered back. It worked. John Scalzi
“ A library is not information; it is a means of preserving information. In every case, before memory or information can be stored, someone must decide what must be stored. Someone must choose. Someone… John Scalzi
“ It’s not whether she tells everyone, Huma said. It’s whether they believe her. It’s the truth. Oh, my daughter, Huma said, and smiled. Don’t tell me you don’t know how little that actually means. John Scalzi
“ I'll say it: I want to see an ugly woman as a spokeswoman for a women's network. Ugly men are out there all the time – look at Larry King, for God's sake. He looks like someone's talking underwear. Wh… John Scalzi
“ The cynical could afford the luxury of their cynicism because of the stability of the system they mocked. John Scalzi
“ The reality is more complicated, but as with most humans, the people on Earth prefer the simple answer. John Scalzi
“ The diagnostic said there was nothing wrong with the threep, which may have meant there was something wrong with the diagnostic. John Scalzi
“ 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. That’s something I can work on. It’s what I’m working on… John Scalzi
“ You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself. John Scalzi
“ 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. John Scalzi
“ Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards. John Scalzi
“ There is a moment of surface tension when a knife blade presents its demand and the flesh honors it. An instant of pressure before the puncture, the rip before the slide, a small eternity easy to miss… John Scalzi
