Mike Resnick Quotes

You're going to find this hard to believe, but I don't give a damn about the money," answered Flint.
"'Hard' is an understatement," said Mr. Ahasuerus. "I find it impossible to believe.

Somewhere along the way he learned the most important lesson of all, which was that a king with no heirs had better never turn his back on anybody.

There are no bad bounty hunters," replied Cain. "Just good ones and dead ones."
"Why did you become a bounty hunter in the first place?" asked Jacinto.
"When I realized that I wasn't going to make the galaxy a better place to live in in one bold stroke, I decided to try doing it one small step at a time."
"Have you ever regretted it?"
"Not really," replied Cain. "We all make choices; most of us get pretty much what we deserve.

The mind discerns and decides, and the heart vetoes. It is a very inefficient system.

“You know,” he said unhappily, “I never did like you much. You were always too ambitious, always scheming and plotting.”
“Why should I deny it?” she said calmly. “I’ll only add that it’s people like you who made it easy.”
“What’ll you do when you finally get to the top, and there are no more bodies to climb over?”
“Mostly, I’ll enjoy it,” she replied.

What this embassy needs is more killers and less bureaucrats.

You haven't changed at all, Carlos. You never trusted anyone or anything."
"Maybe that's why I'm still alive.

“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.

“He has wealth, and fame, and security, and everything he ever wanted,” persisted Mr. Ahasuerus. “Why should he be unhappy?”
“Maybe because he’s got wealth and fame and security and everything he ever wanted,” replied the Dancer.

Enough screaming and yelling!" he yells. "I expect you to behave with some decorum. After all, this is a bar, not City Hall.

“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.

“Kabalka Five? That’s an alien world, isn’t it?”
“It doesn’t take aliens long to find out what men will do for gold,” she replied.

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

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.

Nobody reaches a position of authority without the ability to be a back-stabbing bastard when the chips are down.