Mike Resnick Quotes

You have no moral compunctions about it?" persisted Batman.
"Hell, no," replied Monk. "As Thaddeus says, if God didn't want them fleeced, He wouldn't have made 'em sheep. Words to live by, once you become a carny.

There's a possibility that I'm wrong."
"That's the first rational thing you've said.

Gloria, the world—hell, the whole damned universe—is divided into just two groups: meat eaters and meat. It has been my experience that the former never feels sorry for the latter.

What's your secret, Mr. Flint?" asked Jiminy with a smile.
"The two greatest aphrodisiacs in the universe," answered Flint easily. "Money and power." He paused. "A hell of a lot of rhinos could've kept their horns if people had just looked at things the way they are, instead of the way they'd like them to be.

What this embassy needs is more killers and less bureaucrats.

Why did you ever like him, Mouse?" asked Penelope.
"I was lonely," said the Mouse with a sigh, "and sometimes lonely people make poor choices.

“This is a grim business. There’s nothing romantic about harassing an overwhelming power with no hope of winning.”
“If he knows he can’t win, why does he do it?”
“To avoid losing.”
“That sounds profound, but it doesn’t make a hell of a lot of sense,” said Cain.

Don't worry," said Monk. "It'll be a cakewalk."
"Cakes don't walk, Jupiter," said Flint. "They fall.

“It is an honest wager on an honest fight between two evenly-matched masters of the fistic arts,” says Pedro.
“Who would have believed it?” says Benny.
“Believed what?” asks Pedro.
“You manage to cram five lies into an eighteen-word sentence,” answers Benny.

Procyon III does have a gravity identical to Earth's," said Mr. Ahasuerus apologetically.
"I suspect it's also about as heavily populated as Saskatchewan."
"I am unacquainted with that location," said the blue man.
"So is everyone else.

I also destroyed a man who was in serious need of destruction," replied Cain. "On the whole, I'd say the ledger came out on the plus side."
"There wasn't even any paper on Socrates."
"Then view killing him as a service to humanity."
"I wasn't aware that you were in the philanthropy business," said the Swagman.
"There are more important things than money," said Cain.
"True—but all of them cost money.

Don't believe everything you hear," said the Mouse.
Ryan laughed again. "If I believed half of what I heard, I'd be dead and buried already.

I've always wanted what people told me I couldn't have," responded Flint. "You've never wanted all that much of anything. Which do you suppose is worse?

The second you attain power, you become what you’ve been fighting against.

I don't believe you."
"What you believe is of no importance to me.