James Nicoll

"Atomic war is bad but you know what’s even worse? Having had enough atomic wars that you can rank them in terms of horribleness."

"At some point when I wasn’t paying attention, comedic genocide just stopped working for me. This is a shame because so much fantasy and SF depends on genocide as positive plot element. This trifling o…"

"Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say "I know what I am doing" at critical moments."

"Nah, that's just the morphic field of the local environment compensating for a Nicoll Event. Do you recall having a mishap just before any of these sightings?"

"Just as people in zombie apocalypses seem never to have seen a zombie apocalypse movie, so people in novels about the pioneering days of time travel never seem to have read novels on the subject."

"The sharp side of the knife goes away from you. Pure reason does not trump brute force but suprisingly few people know what hot peppers look like when the teacher asks if you have enough to share with…"

"It’s a sad thing that the march of time and evolution of mores can rob one of the ability to laugh at simple domestic abuse."

"Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story."