A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

— Joe Haldeman

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

— Joe Haldeman

Hemingway was a jerk. I mean he was really a great jerk. He was a good writer, and he did all sorts of things that I would never have the courage to do, but I don't think I'd enjoy being in the same room with him. He's not my kind of person.

— Joe Haldeman

He's asleep in the harbor, disguised as dog shit.

— Joe Haldeman

Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.

— Joe Haldeman

One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.

— Joe Haldeman

Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:he never told me he was from another world:I never told him I was from his future.

— Joe Haldeman

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— Joe Haldeman

The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else.

— Joe Haldeman

You can't make a date in death's dateless night.

— Joe Haldeman