Quotes by J. Michael Straczynski

“People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.”

“All love is unrequited. All of it.”

“Im delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesnt always do it in the way you expect.”

“If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do”

“Never follow somebody elses path; it doesnt work the same way twice for anyone...the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.”

“On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.”

“No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.”

“Ive made a decision and now I must face the consequences.”

“The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.”

Doesnt matter what the press says. Doesnt matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesnt matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- No, YOU move.

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.

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

You cant 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 isnt the world we thought we were supposed to get, the world we thought wed been promised by somebody. Because things didnt turn out the way they were supposed to. So we go someplace else.

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.

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

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

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.

No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person, in the dark where no one will ever know or see.

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

Ive made a decision and now I must face the consequences.