92 Quotes by Joe Haldeman

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else.

Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.

Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:he never told me he was from another world:I never told him I was from his future.

He's asleep in the harbor, disguised as dog shit.

You can't make a date in death's dateless night.

But I decided that buying the gift was more for me than for her, anyhow. A commercial kind of substitute for prayer.

... then unleashed Stargate's 18 sex-starved men on our women, compliant and promiscuous by military custom and law...

Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.