Wil Wheaton > Wil's Quotes

“Wil Wheaton Says: Don't be a dick.”
― Wil Wheaton

“You can’t has,' he whispered softly, 'not yours.”
― Wil Wheaton, Clash of the Geeks

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

“The lone attendant wasn’t paying any attention to the register; he just stood, mouth half open, holding the remote like maybe if he could change the channel he could change the future. The Moon was gone.”
― John Joseph Adams, The End is Now

“No one is making me say this. No one is making me tell this story. Nobody’s ever been much good at making me say anything I hadn’t already made up my mind to say.”
― Elizabeth Bear

“The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just weren’t paying attention.”
― Elizabeth Bear

“It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are, without any self-deception or illusion, that a light will develop out of events, by which the path to success may be recognized.”
― John Joseph Adams, The End is Now

“You don’t need to cure the lepers to be a faith healer. We’re all of us in my business doing the same work, because what is faith but another story that you tell yourself to feel better?”
― John Joseph Adams, The End is Nigh

“The fairy tale of heaven, the promise that whatever shit happens, your story gets a happy ending. The Bible, boiled down: Once upon a time I helped some poor suckers out and someday, maybe, if you’re good, I’ll help you too,”
― John Joseph Adams, The End is Nigh

“I remembered that, trying to survive the battle zone, dodging artillery fire between the kid you were and the man you were supposed to be. The world screamed at you to grow up, your zits and your twitchy dick agreed it was about time, but you were still afraid of the dark, you still slept with that old teddy bear, you still wanted your mommy.”
― John Joseph Adams, The End is Nigh

“They say you can’t remember pain—the fact of it, yes, but the truth of it, the physical texture of agony? Gone and forgotten. Which makes it easy to forget that pain hurts, that the wounded life isn’t always worth living.”
― John Joseph Adams, The End is Nigh

“Enjoy the moment. We don’t have forever.”
― John Joseph Adams, The End is Nigh

“The city has millions of stories that I don’t know. Never did and never will.”
― John Joseph Adams, The End Has Come

“Martians published magazines, just like we do. Something familiar; make the Martians seem more real. More human.”
― Anonymous

“That was what separated us from the zombies.”
― Mira Grant, Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus

“It’s a hard world these days, and no matter how hard we try, it just keeps on getting harder.”
― Mira Grant, Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus

“Usually what everyone knows is insulting and sort of ableist, because the people who know everything always seem to think of themselves as being perfectly normal.”
― Mira Grant, Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus

“Indiana Jones and the Middle of Fucking Nowhere, coming never to a theater near you.”
― Mira Grant, Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus

“What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead. I was developing symptoms. As soon as I sat down and began, I was okay.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“Stupid. Shortsighted. A man born with a sense for raw opportunity where his soul should have been. Miller’s”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“The pachinko machines lit them blue and green and shrieked in artificial delight.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“The massive radiation exposure had failed to give him superpowers.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“He hadn’t been aware he’d felt wrong until he suddenly felt right again.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“His parents had raised him to believe that sex was something you did in private not because it was embarrassing, but because it was intimate.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“Everyone too busy trying to survive to spend any time creating something new.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“It’s hard to sell the official story to people who can see things for themselves.”
― John Scalzi, The Life of the Mind

“It’s not exactly surprising that staying sane is useful when trying to hit performance markers.”
― John Scalzi, The Life of the Mind

“he didn’t exactly have the “programmer” look to him, if you know what I mean. He’d be the programmer’s boss. The one they hated. The one who made them work on holidays.”
― John Scalzi, The Life of the Mind