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“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.”

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.
You can’t stop aging. Gene therapies and replacement organs and plastic surgery give it a good fight. But it catches up with you anyway. Get a new lung, and your heart blows a valve. Get a new heart, and your liver swells up to the size of an inflatable kiddie pool. Change out your liver, a stroke gives you a whack. That’s aging’s trump card; they still can’t replace brains.”

John Scalzi

Source: Old Man’s War (2005), Chapter 1 (p. 14)

“If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.”

John Scalzi

Source: Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008

“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, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).”

John Scalzi

“For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.”

John Scalzi book Old Man's War

Source: Old Man's War

“I’m not insane, sir,” I said. “I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.”

John Scalzi book Old Man's War

Source: Old Man’s War (2005), Chapter 17 (p. 305)
Source: Old Man's War

“I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.”

John Scalzi

Source: Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008

“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.”

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

Source: The Sagan Diary

“I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.
Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two.”

John Scalzi book Old Man's War

Source: Old Man's War

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

John Scalzi book Old Man's War

Source: Old Man's War

“We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole.”

John Scalzi book Redshirts

Source: Redshirts

“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.”

John Scalzi book Redshirts

Source: Redshirts

“The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat”

John Scalzi The Last Colony

Source: The Last Colony

“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.”

John Scalzi book Old Man's War

Source: Old Man's War

“Who are you and what medications aren’t you taking?”

John Scalzi book Redshirts

Source: Redshirts (2012), Chapter 3 (p. 49)