Scott Westerfeld

It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.

—Scott Westerfeld in Specials

Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.

—Scott Westerfeld

Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.

—Scott Westerfeld

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

—Scott Westerfeld

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

—Scott Westerfeld

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

—Scott Westerfeld

Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

—Scott Westerfeld

A little drama wins more friends than boring.

—Scott Westerfeld

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

—Scott Westerfeld

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters—a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

—Scott Westerfeld

We don't always get to choose what we love.

—Scott Westerfeld

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain

—Scott Westerfeld

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

—Scott Westerfeld