It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light..

Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim..

Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?.

There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live..

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere..

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere..

An honest book is almost as good as a friend..

From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was a hypersphere embedded in a cloud….

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person,….

These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the….

It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen..

Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end..

Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely..

Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven..

Ecstasy hates company..

There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart..

The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to e….

John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hosti….

I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise..

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising lik….

Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?.