1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They’re also entitled to express them online.2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don’t like.3. Sometimes those opinions won’t be very nice.4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) ass

— John Scalzi

After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest black hole, so that none of its atoms would ever contaminate this particular universe again. I thought that last part was overkill.

— John Scalzi

Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races.

— John Scalzi

Creativity eventually comes from the need not have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.

— John Scalzi

Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.

— John Scalzi

Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front of you at any one time. And there’s nothing romantic about keeping your head down to avoid getting shot, or trying to save a friend who’s been injured, or coming face to face with a creature who is as smart and mean and as terrified of dying as you are, and who wants to make sure that if someone is left on the ground there, it’s you and not it.

— John Scalzi

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

— John Scalzi

Dreyer laments we now live in a “post-Christian” America, but he’s wrong. The Americans who are standing with their loved ones and neighbors are in fact doing exactly what Jesus asked them to do, when he said that we should love each other as we love ourselves. It’s possible, however, that we live in a post-accepting-bigotry-cloaking-itself-in-the-raiment-of-Christ America. And, you know. I can live in that America just fine.

— John Scalzi

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

— John Scalzi

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

— John Scalzi