Joe Haldeman Quotes
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When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.
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She smiled. 'I wouldn’t mind. Is that a difference between men and women or between you and me?''I think it’s a difference between you and merely sane people.'
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Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.
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'We’re inferring from an absence of data,' Jacque said. 'That’s lousy science.'
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No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.
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Rationalism doesn’t require 'belief,' only observation. The real, measurable world doesn’t care what you believe.
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If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.
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Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.
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I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.
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Men started to geoform the earth in the middle of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, a lot of the early work was done by people who failed to see the earth as a closed set of mutually interrelated systems.
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'Some are born crazy,' Amelia said. 'Some achieve craziness. We had craziness thrust upon us.'
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I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.
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'You were a Jesuit?''Franciscan. We run a close second in being pains in the ass.'
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I had to stifle an impulse to laugh. Surely 'cowardice' had nothing to do with his decision. Surely he had nothing so primitive and unmilitary as a will to live.
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It was making me a little queasy. Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.
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Maybe after the war we’ll be civilized again. That’s the way it has always happened in the past.
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Nobody else in that platoon can tell a Hamiltonian from a hamburger.
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It was so much more complicated than it had to be, but the changeling had noted that this was true of every human biological function that wasn’t involuntary.
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She hadn’t been such a bad girl before the power went to her head.
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I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.