392 Quotes by John Scalzi

There’s nothing like sharing menarche with a billion hermaphrodites. I think it was everyone’s first time.

Wes is Wes,” Alastair said. “One in every family. I love him, but I think of him as a sarcastic pet.

God is a hack,” he said. “He’s a writer on an awful science fiction television show, and He can’t plot His way out of a box. How do you have faith when you know that?

The Fflict recognized five genders: male, female, zhial, yal, and neuter. Aul was zhial, and ze liked zis pronouns accurately stated. I would too, in zis position.

Fear isn’t the desire to avoid death or pain. Fear is rooted in the knowledge that what you recognize as yourself can cease to exist. Fear is existential.

It’s conspiracy mongering.” “I agree. But not all conspiracies crop up because someone forgot to adjust their tinfoil hat, ma’am. Sometimes they’re part of a disinformation campaign.

The Yherajk were a less immediate but infinitely more complicated problem – alien globs who want to befriend a humanity that, if asked, would probably prefer to be befriended by something with an endoskeleton.

Is it painful?” the groundskeeper asked. “I am asking for science.

And also because I know if I’ve figured it out, someone else has too, because there’s always someone else smarter out there, who may not have ethics.