I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

I don't have a strong interest in history.

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

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

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

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

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

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

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

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.

We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

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

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

I love superconductors.

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

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

Treat your life like something to be sculpted.

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!

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

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

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

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

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

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

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

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

In a collaboration each author will do 75 of the work.

Everything starts as somebodys daydream

Everything starts as somebodys daydream.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didnt have a space program.

Slippery smooth rhythmic motion absolute single minded purpose motion for the pleasure of motion itself. It was terrible it its beauty the flight of the horse.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

We have to invest in developing Villa Park, allowing us to generate our own revenue streams. At the same time, of course, there's a balance between growing long-term and getting the instant results we all crave as fans.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect.

Life is like a carousel. Returning to the same point each time with a different bounce. Its your take whether you wanna enjoy it or throw up.

I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.

I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really.

Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.

'Never Gonna Give You Up' in 1987 was a huge international hit followed by several more, and while I appreciated how lucky I was, it catapulted me into a completely new world and simply took over my life.

Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone.

Happiness is egotistical.

It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.

Don't think I'd really want to be a mortician. Wouldn't be getting much back.