James Alan Gardner Quotes

Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.

You don’t free yourself from duty by running away. That only increases the weight on your shoulders.

Having a perilous adventure is always better than comatose safety. Always, always, always, always, always.

Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.

I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.

That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.

I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.

Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.

Don't be a little paranoid; worry about everything, or let it all go.

The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.

It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone.