John Constantine: [speaking to God] I know I’m not one of your favorites. I’m not even welcome in your house. But, I could use a little attention. […]

“Let the dreamer write the first draft. Let the perfectionist do the rest.”― Darnell Lamont Walker […]

“A purer form of transferring human consciousness from one body to that of another rests squarely on our concept of mind/body dualism. In other words, is the mind something innately separate […]

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”― Rachel Carson Imageshutterstock_1214938663 […]

“I will live the life I choose.” Bo, the heroine of Lost Girl […]

“For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ […]

“The enemy of our enemy…” Charles Vance the commander-in-chief of Starfleet“Is usually just another enemy.” Nahla Ake, teacher and captain of USS Athena […]

Dr. Molly Anne Caffrey:Here’s where we’re at: we still have about 200 anonymous, possibly infected people in the D.C. area who ate contaminated tomatoes. Arthur Ramsey:I haven’t […]

Galileo Galilei: “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” […]

To think of ourselves as unique, apart from nature, separate from the universe, is a testament to our collective madness. John Lilly […]

“There is no greater power and support you can give someone than to look them in the eye, and with sincerity/conviction say, ‘I believe in you.'” […]

That’s me. Old fashioned. Even my robot’s discontinued. […]

 “And in the end, that, that capacity for love, the ability to love someone unselfishly is the only thing that will separate me from you.” -Howard […]

Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love. Stephanie Roberts […]

“I fully sympathize with the mandarin who cut off a priceless embroidered sleeve because a kitten was sleeping on it.” Robert A. Heinlein The Door Into Summer 1956 […]

Must we follow the rules of our genre? Yes! But which rules? Mine, of course!  JM Strasser March 2025 […]

Now I don’t pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is just a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive. Because the days and the years ahead are worth […]

“Your utopia is my dystopia.” —Gordon Jack  […]

“When a population is dependent on a machine, they are hostages of the men who tend the machines.” — https://bigthink.com/high-culture/science-fictions-best-quotes-that-offer-real-world-wisdom/ […]

“You can’t be heartless to things with no heart.” Colonel Bradbury The Electric State […]

“To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in the world.” – Aladdin, 1992. […]

“His mind could be his salvation, as it had been his damnation.” —Richard Matheson, The Shrinking Man, 1956 novel […]

What is going on in New Jersey? Nobody knows!!  “The one thing that this job has taught me is that truth is stranger than fiction.” – The Bartender, Predestination 2014 […]

“When I was a kid, you told me I should never let you get in the way of how much you love me. Well now you have to help me not get in the way. I’m old – older. But I still feel the […]

“All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, and adornment, luxury, or folly which can- and must- be dumped in emergency to […]

“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.” -Sylvia Plath […]

A Friendly Man: You need to FORGET! The Forgotten […]

Why film is important “A society without cheer and humor will not have a bright future.” Shin’ichirô Miki – Sir Nighteye From the TV Series: My Hero Academia […]

“Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”—Annie Proulx […]

Stop Using AI To Write Your Sci-Fi Stories- The Gamer […]

Well, I guess cyborgs like myself have a tendency to be paranoid about our origins. –Major Mira aka Motoko Kusanagi […]

“Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, ‘Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it’s going to be a lot different.’ – David Gerrold […]

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” — Mark Twain […]

“The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.” – Robert A. Heinlein […]

General Carter: [after the briefing before the mission] Any further questions? Anybody? Grant: Just one, General. General Carter: Yes, what’s that? Grant: Where do I get a cab back to town? […]

One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns […]

“To be a great terraformer, you need the green thumb of a gardener, the eye of a painter, the soul of a poet… and it doesn’t hurt to be a raging egomaniac.” — Professor Gideon […]

Atlas Shepherd: And do you think you have a soul? Smith: I think everything has a soul. Atlas Shepherd: But you can’t find it in your code. Smith: Not any more than you can find it in yours. But I […]

Here’s a quick rule of thumb” Don’t annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they’ll do to you. ― John Scalzi […]

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” ― Terry […]

You need to live in a dome initially but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on. … So it’s a fixer-upper of a planet. […]

The Last Man on Earth Waking Up Robert Morgan: Another day to live through. Better get started. IMDb.com […]

500-year-old Shakespeare prop used in early performances of Romeo and Juliet found in Curtain Theatre dig “Herb, seriously, I want to dig up that William Shakespeare so he can see what true writing […]

I know the sky is not the limit because there are footprints on the Moon — and I made some of them! Buzz Aldrin […]

“Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.”   – Captain James T Kirk, […]

Unless you treat failure as part of the journey, you’re never going to get anywhere. Tom Selleck […]

I miss the hopeful side of science fiction, which really goes back to the roots of the genre, and that is: what can we achieve if we put our minds to it? ― Seth Macfarlane, Star Trek: Discovery […]

“That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson […]

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. ― Philip K. Dick […]

The cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending. Bryan Appleyard […]

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed. Robert A. Heinlein […]

We all know interspecies romance is weird.― Tim Burton […]

Shaun: Come and get it! It’s a running buffet! All you can eat! Source and Photo […]

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can’t help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime: the […]

“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard”- John F. Kennedy September 12, 1962 Source […]

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take […]

Lt. John Masterson: Alhague, how do you like being human?Unknown prisoner: [distant] Say, what? [At this revelation, Tom Beck looks at Lloyd. Lloyd looks back] Lloyd Gallagher: It’s all right […]

If you ask “Should we be in space?” you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space. Frank Herbert Source https://libquotes.com/frank-herbert/quotes/space […]

When you’re on a series that’s been cancelled, there’s a little bit of a stink on you. Hank Azaria Source https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/hank_azaria_458419?src=t_cancelled Photo […]

Elon Musk-backed AI startup X.AI files for $1 billion equity offering Elon Musk: ‘My guess is that we’ll have AI that is smarter than any one human probably around the end of next year.’  Source […]

John, the Leader of the visitors: We have come in peace, to all mankind. Our planet is the 4th in distance from the star you call Sirius, some 8.7 light years from Earth. This is the first time we […]

Atom-Wallpapers-Top-Free-Atom-Backgrounds-WallpaperAccess.jpg “Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.”― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything   […]

Klaatu, the visitor from another world, sits in the hospital room. He has been shot coming out of his spaceship trying to give the US President a present. Here he is talking to Mr. Harley, a […]

    Klaatu: You Have faith, Professor Barnhardt? Barndhardt: It isn’t faith that makes good science, Mr. Klaatu, it’s curiosity. Sit down, please. There are several thousand […]

Dr. Jeremy Stone: “Stick to established procedures.” Dr. Ruth Leavitt: “Establishment gonna fall down and go boom.”- The Andromeda Strain IMDb quotes […]

“We’re a most promising species, Mr. Spock, as predators go. Did you know that? I frequently have my doubts. I don’t. Not any more. And maybe in a thousand years or so, we’ll […]

Andrew Martin: I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be. […]

Galatea (Called out by Rupert for being grumpy at work) “Every day its (salutes) ‘Yes Rupert sir’, No Rupert sir’, ‘Can I get you another beverage Rupert sir?!’ […]

“When a Resolution is once taken, nothing tortures men like the wait before it can be executed.” Quote of Polybius used in When Worlds Collide 1933 Polybius [Πολύβιος] (c. 203 BC – 120 BC) was […]

Total Recall quote [Douglas Quaid seeing his real personality on the screen] Hauser: Now, this is the plan. Get ya ass to Mars. […]

“Searching for ETs in this political environment is a tough sell.” RON SILVER – Phil Gordian in The Arrival […]

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the […]

“The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don’t have a space program, it’ll serve us right!”― Larry Niven […]

Sci-fi conventions are probably the most fun, the most out-of-the-box, entertaining week or weekend you’ve ever had in your life. Richard Hatch […]

                                 “All right, so just because I’m a wizard doesn’t mean I don’t […]

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.” – Ray Bradbury […]

      Laurel: Half of your brain is missing, Dad! Dean: How much of that brain was I really using?- _Brain Dead Season 1 Episode 8_ […]

“The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken.” –Tom Robbins  from the book Jitterbug Perfume […]

“If you are offered a seat on a rocketship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/754679-if-you-re-offered-a-seat-on-a-rocket-ship-don-t […]

“There was a nuclear war. A few years from now, all this, this whole place, everything, it’s gone. Just gone. There were survivors. Here, there. Nobody even knew who started it. It was the machines, […]

“I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show […]

                            “You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.”― Connie Brockway, The […]

Nada talking to Frank “You ain’t the first son of a bitch to wake up out of their dream.”-RODDY PIPER playing Nada from “They Live” Quotes (1988) […]

“I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.” —Ray Bradbury […]