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My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew up entire solar systems, I consigned billions of people to horrible death; they didn't seem to mind that at all. But no hanky-panky.

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He’s so doggone narrow-minded he could look through a keyhole with both eyes.

Saturn (2003)

Even snaky little Vyborg chatted happily with a few of the glowing-eyed young women that clustered about him, Eberly noted. Power goes to some people’s heads; in other people, power goes straight to the groin.

Saturn (2003)

“Wake up in there!” Fritz hollered.
“I’m awake,” said Gaeta.
“These days you spend too much time in bed and not enough time sleeping.”

Saturn (2003)

Your job is not to die for your country. Your job is to get the other poor sonofabitch to die for his country.

Orion Among The Stars (1995)

If astronomy has taught man anything it is the painful fact that we are not special creatures in any sense of the term. Our star is an average one, and the conditions that led to the formation of our planet and ourselves were probably not very extraordinary.

Where Is Everybody? (1963)

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