Top 15 Mike Resnick Quotes

He was destined to desert me."
"How do you know I won't?"
"Because you are selfish enough and greedy enough and immoral enough to realize that your best interest lies in total fealty to me," she replied.
"I don't know that I especially like that assessment of me," said the Kid.
"The question is not whether you like it," replied Penelope, "but whether it is true.

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.

She didn't kill him," explained the Iceman. "She could have saved him, but she chose not to. Legally it's not the same thing; morally it is.

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

Don't ever take a job as a diplomat or a politician," said the Iceman wryly.
"I beg your pardon."
"You're a lousy liar.

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

We have nothing in common except our enmity.

I’m trying to tell you that you can trust me because I’m motivated by the most basic human emotion: greed.

Well, it's a practical approach," she conceded. "But it's not very satisfying. I think an animal in the forest might have that same viewpoint."
"I spend most of my life with the animals in the forest," replied Chandler. "Very few of them have high blood pressure or heart attacks. Maybe they know something we don't know."
"They don't know anything," said Jade. "They just react."
"They stay warm and dry and well fed," he noted. "When all is said and done, that's all most humans are really trying to do.

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.

A moral assassin," she said with an amused smile.
"Not everyone gets into this business because they like to kill people," he replied.
"Then why do you do it?"
"Because I find all forms of business distasteful," answered Chandler. "This one pays me enough so that I don't have to work very often.

What this embassy needs is more killers and less bureaucrats.

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

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.

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