“You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.”

“You were sick, but now you are well, and there is work to be done.”

“We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.”

“There's one consolation," said Bee. "We're all used up. We'll never be of any use to him again.”

“The troops and their ladies had first drunk champagne. There were also remains of sandwiches, and I stepped on one, which I think was either cucumber or watercress. I scraped it off on the curbing, left it there for germs. I'll tell you this, though: No germ is going to leave the Solar System eating sissy stuff like that.Plutonium! Now there's the stuff to put hair on a microbe's chest.”

“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.”

“When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were the shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so that they would never hurt anybody ever again.”