“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 really can’t complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can’t get paid to be smart.

Tycho, we’re about to achieve a tremendous victory we don’t want.” “We’ll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn’t fail when he tried to.” “Thanks.” Wedge & Tycho

The principle of Sturgeon’s Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap

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.

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)

How are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we’re all one?

Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.

The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.

It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?