92 Quotes by Joe Haldeman

Well, there’s always Nevada,” Benny said. “You can buy anything from a hand laser to an atom bomb there.

Politicians cover their mistakes with money; cooks cover their mistakes with mayonnaise; doctors cover theirs with dirt.

But I remember another image from Earth: the rich dark green grass that grew in graveyards.

A square meter of earth, Dostoevski said; if all you had was a square meter of earth to stand on, and nothing around you but impenetrable fog, living would be preferable to dying.

One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that’s been more-or-less true for a century.

I tried to get through to my brother, Mike, on the Moon, but the phone company wouldn’t let me place the call until I had signed a contract and posted a $25,000 bond.

Florida and half of Georgia comprised a trigger-happy xenophobic lunatic asylum.

I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch.

I have a radical thought,” Meryl said. “Instead of heading for the hills with guns, why don’t we try to find something like the Red Cross, and volunteer. Try to do something constructive.