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You can be happy anywhere, if you have the right point of view. And the ability to ignore the smell of an entire planet.
— John Scalzi
One day I'd like to visit this planet without having to toss myself down its atmosphere.
— John Scalzi
I have seen John Scalzi's pose-off picture. There are no words. There is only inarticulate whimpering.
— Jim C. Hines
Yes, he's an equal opportunity asshole," Szilard said. "And he's aware of it, which he thinks means it's okay.
— John Scalzi
Are we agreed that the goal here is survival, not a win?
— John Scalzi
We're in the wrong universe for fair.
— John Scalzi
You don't have paperwork," Savitri said. "You give it all to me." "Is it done?" I asked. "As far as you know, yes," Savitri said.
— John Scalzi
It's not exactly surprising that staying sane is useful when trying to hit performance markers.
— John Scalzi
The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another - it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.
— John Scalzi
Captain Sophia Coloma looked every inch of what she was, which was the sort of person who was not here to put up with your shit.
— John Scalzi
Get off my planet, you son of a bitch.
— John Scalzi
Is it good? It ain't Shakespeare, but then, Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus, so you tell me.
— John Scalzi
Hide' isn't a word we like to use," Cassaway said. "'Perform alternative tasks' is the preferred term.
— John Scalzi
If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.
— John Scalzi
And before that, there was, oh, I don't know, editors experiencing demonic possessions and devouring lagging midlist writers. It's always something.
— John Scalzi
Mom, I remember Lizzie," Hart said. "She's really not my type." "She has a brother," Wes said, from his lounge. "He's not my type, either," Hart said.
— John Scalzi
How do you like your peace now, motherfucker?
— John Scalzi
Breakfast was amazing, and I say that having been married to a woman who could make a breakfast spread that would have made Gandhi stop a fast.
— John Scalzi
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
— John Scalzi
I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.
— John Scalzi
The half-life between story of the century and not even the story of the day is quicker than you would ever guess.
— John Scalzi
I would say I'm a medium-sized 'Star Trek' fan. I love the universe that it's created.
— John Scalzi
The good news is I peed before going to sleep.
— John Scalzi
Sometimes in life you're going to win and sometimes you're going to lose. But just because you lose doesn't mean the other guy needs to win.
— John Scalzi
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.
— John Scalzi
We buy time where we may." "You bought yourself time," Oi agreed. "I don't think it's of very good quality.
— John Scalzi
I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.
— John Scalzi
If you're the best that the Earth has got to offer, it's time we bend over and get a tentacle right up the ass.
— John Scalzi
How did you get here, anyway?" "It's classified." "I'm close enough to stab you with a fork.
— John Scalzi
But I have always found that there's an inverse relationship between the number of people in a room and the amount of useful work that can be done.
— John Scalzi
I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.
— John Scalzi
The part of Cardenia's brain in charge of gestalting slammed everything together and shoved it into her consciousness.
— John Scalzi
Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet.
— John Scalzi
Sani's family lived in a well-kept double-wide in an otherwise less-than-spiff trailer park outside of Sawmill.
— John Scalzi
As a general rule when it's a city bus versus any biological creature, it's safe to bet on the bus.
— John Scalzi
Because every time I think of starships skipping across the galaxy, I imagine Albert Einstein in a policeman's uniform, writing up a ticket.
— John Scalzi
I propose a toast. Here's to being right all the time. May God and history forgive us. They all clinked glasses to that.
— John Scalzi
Maybe it's just that no one knows how to conduct a real literary feud anymore, online or otherwise.
— John Scalzi
Well, that's science fiction television for you, though," Abnett said. "Someone's got to be the red shirt.
— John Scalzi
It's not a bad idea." "It's a terrible idea," Oi said. "It just has the advantage of being better than the other option.
— John Scalzi
The idea of spending another six hours with Leon and his farts was more than I could take.
— John Scalzi
How is it so far?" asked Cloud. "How is what so far?" "This," Cloud said, and motioned around him. "Life. The universe. Everything.
— John Scalzi
It's war, you jackasses," Keyes snapped. "I'm sorry it's not terribly convenient or comfortable for you.
— John Scalzi
Ultimately, people write to be understood (excepting Gertrude Stein and Tristan Tzara, who were intentionally being difficult).
— John Scalzi
Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.
— John Scalzi
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.
— John Scalzi
A fourth part of his brain was saying, This is the part where you run and scream a lot. He was listening to the fourth part.
— John Scalzi
And as luck would have it, a position opened up here." "It wasn't luck," Mbeke said. "It was a Longranian Ice Shark," Cassaway said.
— John Scalzi
Maybe after the first dozen times it happened, the Universal Union should have started engineering for space defenestration. NICK
— John Scalzi
In one hand I have a restraining order, and in the other I have a Taser. Which would you like to meet first?
— John Scalzi
What we don't know can't hurt us.
— John Scalzi
General Gau had thanked for her candor in this as in all other things and then went ahead and did it anyway.
— John Scalzi
I'm not sure I like their plan for converting us to their religion, seeing as it involves dying and all.
— John Scalzi
Wes is Wes," Alastair said. "One in every family. I love him, but I think of him as a sarcastic pet.
— John Scalzi
Trust your weapon, it is almost certainly smarter than you are. Remember this and you may yet live.
— John Scalzi
Isn't that weird?" I said. "All the different types of sentient species in the universe, and we're all different, but we all drink coffee.
— John Scalzi
I'm a monster. You're a monster. We're all fucking inhuman monsters, and we don't see a damned thing wrong with it.
— John Scalzi
I love her more than I actually express in words - an irony for a writer - and am every day genuinely amazed I get to spend my life with her.
— John Scalzi
Only Norway regularly sends colonists from Europe, and we all know of that country's ecological disasters.
— John Scalzi
It was interesting what you could do, when your enemy was officially your ally. And unaware you knew it was your enemy.
— John Scalzi
Hickory, have you ever lied to me?" I asked. "I do not believe you are aware of me or any Obin ever lying to you," Hickory said.
— John Scalzi
Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one.
— John Scalzi
Even without the Interdependency, being interdependent was the best way for humanity to survive.
— John Scalzi
No matter what, the Earth is fucked," Rigney said. "Excuse the language, but that's the gist of what I'm hearing from you.
— John Scalzi
It's better to be a dog in peace, than a man in war.
— John Scalzi
Would you like some help with your duct work, sir?" Dahl asked. "Please," Kerensky said. *
— John Scalzi
Listen to me or don't. But if you don't, you'll be dead. And then where will you be? Dead, that's where.
— John Scalzi
I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.
— John Scalzi
Did she tell you I set puppies on fire, too?" Vann asked. "She did not," I said. "It may have been implied.
— John Scalzi
There's nothing like sharing menarche with a billion hermaphrodites. I think it was everyone's first time.
— John Scalzi
My job is to be your loyal opposition.
— John Scalzi
Again I ask permission to be blunt." "Ambassador Abumwe, at this point I cannot imagine you being otherwise.
— John Scalzi
If knew you were going to drug me, kidnap me, and take me back to the dark ages with out my pants, I never would have slept with you.
— John Scalzi