Quotes About Larry Niven

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

Music had played suddenly through the cabin, complex and lovely, rich in minor tones, like the sad call of a sex-maddened computer. Nessus whistled.

Dune; Nova; Double Star; The Corridors of Time; Cat's Cradle; Half Past Human; Murder in Retrospect; Gideon's Day; The Red Right Hand; The Trojan Hearse; A Deadly Shade of Gold; Conjure Wife; Rosemary's Baby; Silverlock; King Conan. He'd packed books not to entertain, nor even to illustrate philosophies of life, but to rebuild civilization.

Louis suggested that the ship be called 'Lying Bastard'. For their own reasons, Teela and Speaker agreed. For his own reason, Nessus did not object.

so that the ship was falling toward the sun; and then he swung the nose inward and began to increase velocity

Louis Wu hardly noticed this triumph of practicality over honor, intelligence over xenophobia.

Yes. No risk is insane now, given the position your insanity has put us in. Louis burst out laughing (a puppeteer teaching courage to Louis Wu?) and sobered as suddenly.

How do you tell an antagonized kzin from an unantagonized one?

Chaplain Hardy handed him the silver pail and asperger, a wand with a hollow ball at the end.

If you can heat some bourbon, I can drink it, said the kzin. If you cannot heat it, I can still drink it. Nessus?

Speaker-To-Animals said one thing more before he turned back to his table. Louis Wu, I found your challenge verbose. In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap. You scream and you leap, said Louis. Great.

She's just what any puppeteer would give his soul to be. She can't be injured.

Are you bringing antimatter to Hearth? You play with star-fire energies as casually as you put edges on furniture!

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!

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

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.

I asked him, "Do you know the difference between nude and naked?" He shook his head. "Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.