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

— John Scalzi

Well, I miss my wife, you know," I said. "But I also miss the feeling of, I don’t know, comfort. The sense you’re where you’re supposed to be, with someone you’re supposed to be with.

— John Scalzi

What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked." You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.

— John Scalzi

What we don't know can't hurt us.

— John Scalzi

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

— John Scalzi

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

— John Scalzi

Yes, he's an equal opportunity asshole," Szilard said. "And he's aware of it, which he thinks means it's okay.

— John Scalzi

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

— John Scalzi

You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better, and it doesn’t cost you much to do it. I’d rather apologize for something I didn’t really care about, and leave someone on Earth wishing me well, than to be stubborn and have that someone hoping that some alien would slurp out my brains. Call it karmic insurance.

— John Scalzi

You just know this is going to be bad," Susan said."—but when I went to college," Harry continued, throwing a piece of bread at Susan, "if your roommate died, you were usually allowed to skip your finals for that semester. You know, because of the trauma."" And oddly enough, your roommate got to skip them, too," Susan said. "For much the same reason.

— John Scalzi