J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

The Great War was born in anger. The war rising around us will come in hatred wrapped in a flag, with a madman at the helm. And that is the war I fear most

Never tell me the odds.

Vir: I thought the purpose of filing these reports was to provide accurate intelligence.

Londo: Oh Vir, intelligence has nothing to do with politics!

Stand tall.

It’s like you’ve created an entirely new level of fuckedupedness that I’ve never even seen before.

A writer is without honor only in his or her own home, among his or her own family.

Doesn't matter what planet they come from, men are so freaking dense.

Many of these books were quite good, most were middle-of-the-road, and a few brought to mind a review by Dorothy Parker, in which she stated, “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

"Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — "No, you move

What am I supposed to do without you?” “Live. That’s all. Just live.” “I don’t know if I know how.” “You’ll figure it out,” I said, and curled up against him. There were two hours left before four o’clock. And in those two hours, we lived a lifetime.

The last time it switched the font to Comic Sans, and if that sticks I’m killing myself right here, right now.

Yeah, I was asleep, but it's okay. I was having my favorite dream. I have it all the time. I was dancing. I was beautiful. I was dancing.

That’s where we are now. We don’t have a voice or a choice anymore, because we’re not being represented.

But the more I talked to you, the more I listened to you, I began to see the beauty in you. In all of you. And I've been moved and humbled by it. I wish you could see yourselves as I do.

He showed me that words can do more than tell stories, they can heal, and as long as you live inside the dignity of what you write, no one can take that away that what matters most. Those who hate you can kill you, but they cannot destroy you or the ideals that matter to you. To be decent writer you had to give yourself over to the power of words and a love of storytelling. (203)