Top 15 John Scalzi Quotes

He’s almost certainly planned for the contingency of being caught. He’s rich and he’s got more lawyers than some countries have people.

You are better at small talk than I am. That is not always a compliment.

“I don’t know,” Davidson said. “Maybe it’s not about politics. Maybe these guys are just assholes.”
“Seems the simplest explanation,” I said.

I was pretty certain my dad was not up to no good, running for senator notwithstanding.

“Do you believe that?” I asked.
“It doesn’t matter whether I believe it or not,” Redhouse said.

Unlike Agents Vann and Shane here, who are being wholly disingenuous, you might be speaking out of genuine ignorance and not just your usual levels of casual obstructionism.

Why 'threep'? Why 'clank'? Slang happens.

You don’t win by getting through all your life not having done anything.

I don't think it would actually make you happier to be told you were right about this," he said finally.
"I don't want to be happy," Dahl said. "I just want to know.

I have no idea what that means, Nick," Paulson said. "Talk normal human to me.

Who are you and what medications aren’t you taking?

I have drinks," Hanson said, coming up behind Duvall.
"Why, Jimmy," Duvall said. "That makes you my new favorite person.

I guess I was just hoping there might be a way to do things other than the way that ends up with everyone getting killed.

Sometimes I don’t know if my life is complicated, or if it’s that I just think too much about things.

Eight-year-olds can switch into acquisition mode pretty quickly.