Aaron Allston Quotes

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

When all else fails, complicate matters

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

Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker.

Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

No one pays me to be nice.

Life is like an analogy.

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.

The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.

The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.

Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.

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

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

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

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles

Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?

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.

Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.