And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.
Larry Niven

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
Larry Niven

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
Larry Niven

Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
Larry Niven

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
Larry Niven

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
Larry Niven

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
Larry Niven

I do not believe they've run out of surprises.
Larry Niven

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
Larry Niven

I don't have a strong interest in history.
Larry Niven


I love superconductors.
Larry Niven

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
Larry Niven

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
Larry Niven

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
Larry Niven

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
Larry Niven

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
Larry Niven

I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
Larry Niven

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
Larry Niven

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
Larry Niven

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
Larry Niven