Kaiju Quotes

“So we’re the monster police, too?” I said to Tom.
“Correct,” he replied. “The only real question is, who are the monsters?”
“They ask that question in every monster movie, you know. It’s an actual trope.”
“I know,” Tom said. “What does it say about us that it’s relevant every single time they ask it?”
― John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

“This is kaiju!" Yojiro barked. "When did they ever give a damn about adhering to science!”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, MM9

“I’d move to trim the front hedges by hand in an insane act of “yard maintenance.” This act of kaiju sized bonsai left me exhausted to attempt any more complex yard acts, but it did give me time to ponder the control a hand tool can provide.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“Pres. Nixon: “Not a penny for tribute!” … He’s the guy who told that moralizing space monster where to stick it, the guy who’ll lead the world in showing that thing it can have our planet when it pries it from our cold, dead, irradiated hands! George McGovern is absolutely going to eat a dogshit popsicle on November 7th, 1972.

--loose quote from his Hugo-nominated "Kaiju Agonistes" (2025)”
― Scott Lynch