92 Quotes by Joe Haldeman

Tonight we’re going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

Marianne, how’s your statistics?” “Math is my worst subject.” “But you can program?” “Of course. I’m not illiterate.

Science fiction as a genre has the benefit of being able to act as parable, to set up a story at a remove so you can make a real-world point without people throwing up a wall in front of it.

Heaven was a lovely, unspoiled Earth-like world; what Earth might have been like if men had treated her with compassion instead of lust.

But they weren’t aliens, I had to remind myself – we were.

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you’re writing about typing.

There’s no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn’t happened yet.

I called to the waiter, ‘bring me one of those Antares things.’ Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet.

We had just herded them up and slaughtered them, the first encounter between mankind and another intelligent species.