45 quotes
Papa always says there’s room for everyone, but some people certainly take theirs up without making it interesting.
Orbital Resonance (1991)
The only thing Carla has ever learned to like about dealing with power is how easy it is to embarrass people who have it.
Mother of Storms (1994)
I burst into tears. It’s the best defense ever found against well-meaning people who are telling you something stupid “for your own good.”
Orbital Resonance (1991)
Silence, like all good things, was at its best and costliest when absolutely pure, and it never paid to skimp on it.
The Lost Princess Man (2009)
How he must have been astonished to see people behaving decently when what they believed was absolute anathema to him.
A Million Open Doors (1992)
Too bad about all those people, but as Hassan says, compassion speaks well of its holder but does little for its recipient.
Mother of Storms (1994)
The way you can tell there’s democracy going on is that nothing gets done.
A Million Open Doors (1992)
There’s just no fight left in her; that’s what happens when you really believe in something, and find out that it was never true.
A Million Open Doors (1992)
Finally she resorts to the oldest tactic of all, telling the truth.
Mother of Storms (1994)
The beautiful earth is being crapped up by an excess of people—lovely as individuals, towns, and cultures, but hideous in such profusion.
Mother of Storms (1994)
Justice has a way of not arriving where and when you wish it.
A Million Open Doors (1992)
With diligent effort he has established that there is no statistical basis for Murphy’s Law. He has also established that he believes in it anyway.
Mother of Storms (1994)
You can’t really win an argument against somebody’s feeling that something is just plain wrong.
Orbital Resonance (1991)
It is characteristic of information that it can be stolen an all but unlimited number of times.
Mother of Storms (1994)
He wonders if there is some requirement that you have to be an idiot to be a politician.
Mother of Storms (1994)
Once you understand what money can do it gets harder to live without it.
Mother of Storms (1994)
Are you up to faking being sincere underneath faking being fake?
Mother of Storms (1994)
Work does not cause money; getting paid causes money.
Mother of Storms (1994)
It’s a game against the clock, but what isn’t?
Mother of Storms (1994)
When all else fails, admit you’re an idiot.
A Million Open Doors (1992)