392 Quotes by John Scalzi

The recruiting office was a small storefront in a nondescript strip mall; there was a state liquor authority store on one side of it and a tattoo parlor on the other. Depending on what order you went into each, you could wake up the next morning in some serious trouble.

If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it’s not everyone else that’s the problem.

I’ve been told my liminal space is like the dark of the grave. But I think of it as the dark from the other end of life entirely. The dark of everything ahead, not everything behind.

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

I despise you and I love you, you who are my damnation and salvation both.

Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to ‘get off my property.’ News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us.

Just accept you’re drinking from the fire hose and open wide.

A church is an institution separate from the religion it serves. It’s filled with people. And you know how people are.

I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti.