“here we were, fifty men and fifty women, with IQs over 150 and bodies of unusual health and strength, slogging elitely through the mud and slush of central Missouri, reflecting on the usefulness of our skill in building bridges on… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
“-I die. Before I die my body turns hair-side-in. People come from everywhere to see the insides of themselves. But the sight makes them… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
“love was an unstable reaction with a half-life of about eight months. Bullshit, I said, and accused him of wearing cultural blinders; thirty centuries… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
“It was the cat, who had the usual talent for hiding from people who like cats and cleaving unto those who have sinus trouble… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
“I die. I breathe in and breahe in and cannot exhale. I explode all over my friends. They forget my name and pretend it… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing. — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
“I die. O my hair falls out and my flesh rots and my bones are cracked by the hungry ta!a'an. He drops me behind… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
“all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.” — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
“We're headed for Aleph-7. Panty raid." New slang term for the type of operation whose main object was to gather Tauran artifacts, and prisoners… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction. — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
“On Earth, we’d just use glue, but here the only fluid was helium, which has lots of interesting properties, but is definitely not sticky.” — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
“... then unleashed Stargate's 18 sex-starved men on our women, compliant and promiscuous by military custom and law...” — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
“He had a moustache-and-beard combination that looked like a skinny white caterpillar taking a lap around his mouth.” — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
“Politicians cover their mistakes with money; cooks cover their mistakes with mayonnaise; doctors cover theirs with dirt.” — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
