92 Quotes by Joe Haldeman

My back pay came to $892,746,012. Not in the form of bales of currency, fortunately; on Heaven they used an electronic credit exchange, so I carried my fortune around in a little machine with a digital readout. To buy something you punched in the vendor’s credit number and the amount of purchase; the sum was automatically shuffled from your account to his. The machine was the size of a slender wallet and coded to your thumbprint.

There may or may not be a God, but if there is one, I wouldn’t want to have him over for dinner.

Some are born crazy,” Amelia said. “Some achieve craziness. We had craziness thrust upon us.

Don’t worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket.

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.

War is the province of danger and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior, von Clausewitz maintained.

Have you had your first baby yet? I might have one myself, once they find a way for the man to carry it around the first nine months.

Don’t ‘write what you know.’ Make up something new!

It was the cat, who had the usual talent for hiding from people who like cats and cleaving unto those who have sinus trouble or just don’t like sneaky little animals.