David Gerrold Quotes

The way I heard it, a contract is a list of all the ways two people don’t trust each other.

Life is full of little surprises.
Time travel is full of big ones.

Don’t push the on-button if you don’t know where the off-button is.

Love isn't what you get. It's what you create.

You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.
Live well, my son.

Life must be a daring adventure or it is nothing at all. It's always a choice between joy and despair. I tried despair. Joy is more fun.

I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.

Not that he was jealous of the machine—but it was reassuring to know that there was still something that human beings could do that machines could not master.
Love.

You aren’t really jumping through time, that’s the illusion; what you’re actually doing is leaving one timestream and jumping to—maybe even creating—another. The second one is identical to the one you just left, including all of the changes you made in it—up to the instant of your appearance. At that moment, simply by the fact of your existence in it, the second timestream becomes a different timestream. You are the difference.

They say that killing is a mortal sin, that it is against the laws of God. If that is true—and I know now that it must be—if that is true, then every man who has ever taken a human life has been, from that moment on, damned for eternity. No matter how many men or nations say that it is all right for a man to take up arms against an enemy, it does not change that one basic fact—killing is a mortal sin.
And every one of those simple white markers we had stood among represents a soul condemned.
A nation had sentenced her sons to damnation so that she might survive.
There’s no such thing as a “moral war.”

There isn’t a tool built that can’t be used as a weapon.

Ah well—the boss didn’t have to know how to run the business. He only needed to know how to run the people who knew.

Every human being is unique. We can generalize at length, but every human being is an individual. And this is especially true about children -- every child develops in their own unique way.

The second time is by mutual consent.

I’ve always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.