392 Quotes by John Scalzi

It’s not a bad idea.” “It’s a terrible idea,” Oi said. “It just has the advantage of being better than the other option.

Virtue signaling’ is a phrase the dim and bigoted use when they want to discount other people expressing the idea that it would be nice if we could all be essentially and fundamentally decent to each other.

I have no idea, Jim,” Lowen said. “I’m a doctor, not a private investigator.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife’s grave. Then I joined the army.

I don’t know that it will matter even then,” Cardenia said. “I’m continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too.

Then: “What time is it in Arizona?” “It’s two hours behind here, so about eight thirty,” I said. “Maybe. Arizona is weird about time zones.

The universe is a big place. Maybe we’re not in the best neighborhood.

It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.

Confidence isn’t about knowing you’re right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right.