392 Quotes by John Scalzi

Here’s a hot tip: If you think calling someone a social justice warrior is an insult, you might be a horrible person.

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.

The failure mode of clever is “asshole.

You say ‘cure.’ I hear ‘you’re not human enough.

The rest of the rebels were recruited from the ranks of the young and excitable and had rather more enthusiasm than skill.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss meaning something to someone, having that part of being human.

You can’t afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make human hamburgers than peace.

When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

Trust your weapon, it is almost certainly smarter than you are. Remember this and you may yet live.