John Scalzi Quotes

I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it without regret, because I knew that what she was was not contained in that hole in the ground. I entered a new life and found her again, in a woman who was entirely her own person. When this life is done, I'll turn away from it without regret as well, because I know she waits for me, in another, different life.

~ John Scalzi

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat

~ John Scalzi

Then you're seventy-five, friends are dead, and you've replaced at least one major organ: you have to pee four times a night, and you can't go up a flight a stairs without being little winded -- and your're told you're in pretty good shape for your age. [....], in a decade you'll be eighty-five, and the only difference between you and a raisin will be that while you're both wrinkled and without a prostate, the raisin never had a prostate to begin with.

~ John Scalzi

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two.

~ John Scalzi

It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off.

~ John Scalzi

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.

~ John Scalzi

When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.

~ John Scalzi

Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.

~ John Scalzi