Quotes by John Scalzi

“Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.”

“Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.”

“Thats what Id 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.”

“Making peace is often a simple thing, but simple isnt the same thing as easy.”

“You cant afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make human hamburgers than peace.”

“Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.”

“I'm more interested in becoming a commercial writer, and unfortunately, commentary on my writing from a bunch of other unpublished writers is of little utility in that regard. Being a better writer...”

“For as much as I hate the cemetery, Ive been grateful its here, too. I miss my wife. Its easier to miss her at a cemetery, where shes never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the place...”

“The failure mode of clever is asshole.”

“If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.”

“In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, theres not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay fo...”

“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. ...”

“Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front of you at any one time. And theres nothing romantic about keeping your head down to avoid gettin...”

“Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.”

“I was getting away with something in my own way. But then I get here and saw you, brain-dead and with tubes coming out of every part of your body. And I realized I wasn't getting away with anything...”

“Trust your weapon, it is almost certainly smarter than you are. Remember this and you may yet live.”

“Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.”

“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.”

“Dreher laments we now live in a post-Christian America, but hes wrong. The Americans who are standing with their loved ones and neighbors are in fact doing exactly what Jesus asked them to do, when...”

“What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked."You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.”