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As usual he looked tired, but that was normal. Geniuses worked harder than anyone else, not less hard.
The Compleat McAndrew (2000)
If deadly violence were to be committed, he was like me. He would think it better to give than to receive.
Aftermath (1998)
Data are not the same as information. Before you can get the answers you want, you have to ask the right question.
The Spheres of Heaven (2001)
What does one do when a madman suggests an appealing course of action? One worries—but probably goes along with it.
Summertide (1990)
Korin stared. It must be a novelty, finding someone more paranoid than he was.
The Spheres of Heaven (2001)
I think my inner voices are pretty good when it comes to warning of trouble. The problem is, I don’t always listen to them.
The Compleat McAndrew (2000)
That’s the trouble with the younger generation. They don’t understand why a thing can’t be done, so they go ahead and do it.
The Compleat McAndrew (2000)
The answers come pat and fast. You see, what the downsiders want isn’t an explanation; it’s a catchphrase they can use instead of an explanation.
Transcendence (1992)
But humans had to learn to ignore appearance. No two beings who shared common thinking processes and common goals should be truly alien to each other.
Summertide (1990)
A long time ago humans talked of terraforming Mars and Venus, but we never did it. Just too busy blowing ourselves up, I guess, ever to get round to it.
Between the Strokes of Night (1985)
Be an optimist! It’s the only way to live.
Summertide (1990)
Everyone was somebody’s cousin, or uncle, or bedmate, or best college friend. Sometimes he felt that the whole of Washington was glued together into one vast, incestuous, and inefficient snotball.
Dancing with Myself (1993)
Didn’t anything scare the two aliens? Sometimes she wondered if humans were the only beings in the universe with a sense of cowardice (be charitable, and call it and instinct for self-preservation).
Convergence (1997)
The partners were there; gravity was calling the changes, and the cosmic dance was ready to begin.
Summertide (1990)
Don’t get caught again. Never, never, never. That was the Golden Rule, the only important rule.
Brother to Dragons (1992)
He was still young enough to hate looking like a fool more than anything in the world.
Proteus Unbound (1989)
When you pay somebody off, it only increases their demands. I know, only too well. They are never satisfied with what they get.
Dancing with Myself (1993)
They saw every event through the distorting lens of their own paranoia.
Proteus Unbound (1989)
Right decision or wrong decision, it was a leader’s job to make it.
Aftermath (1998)
As the poet laureate of all confidence tricksters and treasure-seekers puts it, we were “given to strong delusion, wholly believing a lie.”
Dancing with Myself (1993)