118 quotes
Maybe the universe doesn’t approve of places like New York.
The Engines of God (1994)
Starships, of course, have few limitations with regard to design, the prime specification being simply that they not disintegrate during acceleration or course change.
Infinity Beach (2000)
What people do with their leisure tells us a great deal about the nature of a society, what its values really are, for example, as opposed to what its members say its values are.
Infinity Beach (2000)
If you’ll forgive me, sir, physics is not politics. You can’t make things happen by trying harder.
Moonfall (1998)
“How are you going to define ‘spiritual’?” asked Mona. No one had any idea.
Infinity Beach (2000)
(He was) tall and lean, an aristocrat by inclination, born into money and influence and never recovered.
Odyssey (2006)
He was a decent enough guy, but he was always at his worst when he was trying to be sincere.
Odyssey (2006)
Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there’s a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don’t like it very much.
Odyssey (2006)
The only people he knew of who would have leveled material advantage so that no one had any were of course those who had none to start with.
Deepsix (2001)
During his sixty-odd years, he had found there were as many louts in the patrician classes as there were ignoramuses farther down the social spectrum.
Deepsix (2001)
The Reverend Pullman sat on the opposite side of the bench, wearing clerical garb and one of those unctuous smiles that proclaims a monopoly on truth.
Odyssey (2006)
The earliest religious feeling MacAllister could recall was being annoyed at Adam, because it was his fault that girls subsequently had to wear clothes.
Odyssey (2006)
There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there’s no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.
Odyssey (2006)
“If some of the current politicians had been around a few thousand years ago,” she’d said, “we never would have gotten out of Africa. Boats cost too much.”
Cauldron (2007)
The kids were both adolescents, at that happy stage where they could simultaneously make him confident about the future while they were sabotaging the present.
Cauldron (2007)
Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.
Omega (2003)
At night the sea is very loud,
And voices ride the tide.
At another time, in another place,
Beneath the silent moon,
We laughed together.
Cauldron (2007)
“The media have gone berserk.”
“The media always go berserk. A kid falls off a bike in Montana, they’re all over it. Until something else happens.”
Odyssey (2006)
The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
Odyssey (2006)
Lasker mouthed, “Trust him,” and Max sighed. Trust a lawyer? It flew in the face of his most cherished principles.
Ancient Shores (1996)