392 Quotes by John Scalzi

If someone is telling you to live in interesting times, they are basically telling you they want you to die horribly, and to suffer terribly before you do. Seriously, they are not your friend. This is a tip I am giving you for free.

I don’t look smug.” “You always look smug. You have resting smug face.

Rich people show their appreciation through favors. When everyone you know has more money than they know what to do with, money stops being a useful transactional tool. So instead you offer favors. Deals. Quid pro quos. Things that involve personal involvement rather than money. Because when you’re that rich, your personal time is your limiting factor.

The plan is not the goal.

Pleasure doing business with you, Chad,” Holloway said, setting down the infopanel. “Please die in a fire, Jack,” Bourne said.

The problem with aging is not that it’s one damn thing after another – it’s every damn thing, all at once, all the time.

Hickory clicked something to Dickory in their native tongue; Dickory clicked back. Hickory responded, and Dickory replied, it seemed a bit forcefully. And then, God help me, Hickory actually sighed.

The Jenna Situation, as you recalled it now, had been fraught with fraughtiness.

I looked at Fowler, who had had a bullet applied directly to her forehead.