J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...

It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.

Accidents happen. That's what everyone says. But in a quantum universe there are no such things as accidents, only possibilities and probabilities folded into existence by perception.

We walk in dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We live for the One. We die for the One. -- the Ranger oath

The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.

You can't just pick up a gun and become a gunfighter, or go off and explore for a new world, or pull a sword out of a stone, or rescue a damsel in distress, or-- so we play games and we read books because the world isn't the world we thought we were supposed to get, the world we thought we'd been promised by somebody. Because things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to. So we go someplace else.

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.