Mike Resnick Quotes

The only thing I’m really good at is wishing I was somewhere else.

“A very reasonable attitude,” said Mr. Ahasuerus.
“That’s probably why it’s so rare around here,” said Flint.

I persist in fighting because I see something that's wrong, and the alternative to fighting is to submit."
Cain made no comment.
"If you want a philosophic justification, you'll find it in my library," continued Santiago. "I've got a much simpler explanation."
"What is it?"
He smiled a savage smile. "When someone pushes me, I push back.

Fast is good," said the Iceman. "Accurate is better." He paused again. "And knowing when not to shoot is better still.

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.

As for talking business," he continued carefully, "I haven't heard any offers yet."
"You're still alive," said MacLemore. "That's not necessarily a permanent condition.

It is the home of a very unusual race, as violent in their way as the people of Earth."
"I will assume that's a good thing to be," said Flint dryly.
"For the purpose of this proposition, it most definitely is," said Kargennian, ignoring Flint's undisguised animosity. "They have a culture that worships weaponry fully as much as yours does."
"I don't know that we actually worship it."
"Perhaps I used the wrong word," replied Kargennian. "But the fact remains that their history and cultures are as fully committed to firearms as your own. To this day, most of them carry hand weapons, as barbaric as the concept may seem.

There are a thousand events that must transpire, each in its exact order; a million futures must vanish every nanosecond; and you ask me to explain all this to you? Poor little human, who seeks only a full belly and a fat wallet, who dreams of heroic deeds and grateful maidens, and who is doomed only to become a speck of dust in a galaxy already overflowing with dust.

Look," said Chandler. "Either we've got free will or we don't. If we do, then we are doing the right thing. If we don't, then we can't do anything else, anyway. So what's the point of worrying about it?"
"Because we can stop right now if we decide to."
He smiled. "And how will you know that the Oracle didn't change her mind and choose a future in which we stopped?"
She wearily leaned back on the chair. "Where does it end?"
"Second guessing fate?" asked Chandler. "Never. That's why it's a good idea not to start.

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

“Did you not ever want to see what was beyond the next hill, what strange and unique civilizations lay beyond your own?”
“Until I got there,” answered Monk.

He mumbles something that wouldn’t make any sense even if he was saying it clearly.

“Let’s be reasonable,” suggests Bet-a-Bunch Murphy, which I personally think would make a pleasant change.

Is it true?"
"Probably. But just for the record, is what true?

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?