“Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.”

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

There are two types of people in the world, and I’m one of them.

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone’s satisfaction.

There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you’ve constructed an entire philosophy of evil.” –Luke Skywalker

I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.

Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.

I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas.” “You haven’t heard all our ideas.” Luke & Bhindi Drayson

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface.” “Crash.” “Quite slowly.” Face & Luke

I’m content to stand on tradition. I’m even more content to wipe my feet on it.

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God’s domain?

When all else fails, complicate matters

That was interesting.” “He deliberately countermanded one of my orders.” “He was furtive.” “Sneaky, even.” “We’ll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet.” Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)

Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I’ll shoot him under the table.” Han (to Leia)

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.

The Love-god inflames more fiercely those he sees are reluctant to surrender.

If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

Bigger is always better.

There is no dignity in television.