Joe Haldeman

"I never found anyone else and I don’t want anyone else. I don’t care whether you’re ninety years old or thirty. If I can’t be your lover, I’ll be your nurse."

"If you asked him, he would say the only connection between free will and religion in his life was the fact that he hadn’t set foot in a synagogue since he turned eighteen."

"We did it with their government’s foreknowledge and permission, of course—and there were no civilian casualties, equally of course. Once they’re dead they’re rebels."

"“Some are born crazy,” Amelia said. “Some achieve craziness. We had craziness thrust upon us."

"One thing most of us agree on is that the universe exists , so if some theoretical particle interaction would lead ultimately to the nonexistence of the universe, then you can save a lot of electricit…"

"Like a lot of things that everybody knows, it wasn’t true."

"Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there...the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted."

"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."