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Darya had a few moments of wild hope before logic intruded.
Transcendence (1992)
I’ll say only this: if we’re going to throw the idea of the Big Bang overboard, we won’t have much left of current astrophysics and cosmology.
The Spheres of Heaven (2001)
But mere plausibility did not make the statement true.
Summertide (1990)
What I found was worse than diversity—it was insanity.
Transcendence (1992)
Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
Dancing with Myself (1993)
“He was acquitted; he must have been.”
“Right. Good lawyer, tainted evidence. But that doesn’t mean he was innocent.”
Aftermath (1998)
At stake with something more important than sex. At stake was life and death.
Aftermath (1998)
Irresponsible on my part, to put pleasure before professional work? Sure—but as I get older carpe diem gets more and more reasonable as a motto for life.
Vectors (1979)
We got the way we are, Jeanie, because life on Earth is one long fight for limited resources. Our bloody-mindedness all started out as food battles, three billion years ago.
The Compleat McAndrew (2000)
Alexandria may indeed be full of Devils, Lord, but they behaved very like merchants to my eyes.
Vectors (1979)
Like many things in life, the problem I had been so sure I could solve proved more difficult than it sounded.
The Compleat McAndrew (2000)
Trouble comes in a thousand different ways. Not usually anything you expect, either. That’s why it’s trouble.
Convergence (1997)
“But remember, it was all hearsay.”
“In Washington, hearsay’s the same as gospel truth.”
Aftermath (1998)
“Any great thoughts?”…
“The younger generation are clearly unfitted to run the world, but one day they are going to do it anyway.”
Dancing with Myself (1993)
Humans were inexplicable only if you assumed that they were logical.
Starfire (1999)
I sometimes think that the only thing in life that I find truly irresistible is the challenge to finagle something that everyone else says can’t be done.
Dancing with Myself (1993)
Is that what it takes to go all the way in politics? Ambition first, everything else back in the pack?
And if it is, would any sane human want to have what it takes?
Aftermath (1998)
There is nothing more alien to a modern American than yesterday’s empires, with their arbitrary imperial powers, their cruelty, and their casual control over life and death.
Dancing with Myself (1993)
The game never ended. If Sol were guaranteed to go nova tomorrow, today she would hear from lobbyists for sunscreen.
Starfire (1999)
We are creatures of conditioning, Commander. We assume that what we know is easy, and we find mysterious whatever we do not.
Summertide (1990)