The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War...
LARRY NIVEN But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
LARRY NIVEN I do not believe they've run out of surprises.
LARRY NIVEN SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is nev...
LARRY NIVEN My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
LARRY NIVEN I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
LARRY NIVEN In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
LARRY NIVEN We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
LARRY NIVEN I love superconductors.
LARRY NIVEN Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
LARRY NIVEN I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
LARRY NIVEN I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can f...
LARRY NIVEN I don't have a strong interest in history.
LARRY NIVEN Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
LARRY NIVEN We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
LARRY NIVEN I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
LARRY NIVEN I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
LARRY NIVEN I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
LARRY NIVEN As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill o...
LARRY NIVEN Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he&...
LARRY NIVEN Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
LARRY NIVEN In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of ca...
LARRY NIVEN Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
LARRY NIVEN The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.
LARRY NIVEN That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programm...
LARRY NIVEN Everything starts as somebody's day dream.
LARRY NIVEN We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our ...
LARRY NIVEN Exercise is wonderful," said Louis. "I could sit and watch it all day.
LARRY NIVEN The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct beca...
LARRY NIVEN The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
LARRY NIVEN Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
LARRY NIVEN On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist....
LARRY NIVEN The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim
LARRY NIVEN It strikes me as one of nature's greatest jokes that the types of food we all like to eat more t...
JOHN NIVEN If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gra...
JOHN NIVEN I am very fortunate. I am a glass-half-full eternal optimist type to the point of being a moron. But...
JOHN NIVEN What a terrible feeling to love soemone and not be able to help them.
JENNIFER NIVEN Forget worrying about the break-up of celebrities you don't even know. I have long since given u...
JOHN NIVEN It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the m...
JENNIFER NIVEN I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like th...
JENNIFER NIVEN What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpl...
JENNIFER NIVEN Sorry wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the...
JENNIFER NIVEN sometimes there’s beauty in the tough words—it’s all in how you read them.
JENNIFER NIVEN You have been in every way all that anyone could be.… If anybody could have saved me it would hav...
JENNIFER NIVEN You make me lovely, and it’s so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.…
JENNIFER NIVEN The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.
JENNIFER NIVEN The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.
JENNIFER NIVEN We do not remember days, we remember moments.
JENNIFER NIVEN The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.
JENNIFER NIVEN You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.
JENNIFER NIVEN Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.
JENNIFER NIVEN I love watching the Oscars and seeing everybody saying all that 'it's an honour just to be n...
JOHN NIVEN I remembered being young in the late '70s and early '80s and growing up at the height of the...
JOHN NIVEN Non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia can only celebrate Valentine's Day behind closed doors. Apparently, ...
JOHN NIVEN It has long been known that if you want to see me turn into a raging, snarling beast, then all you h...
JOHN NIVEN It's one of the hardest things in the world to sustain a monogamous relationship for many years....
JOHN NIVEN It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to...
JOHN NIVEN Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll al...
DAVID NIVEN Whenever someone like a plumber or a mechanic tries to explain something technical to me, I listen f...
JOHN NIVEN The mechanic could lift up the bonnet of the car and show me four dwarves strapped to a pair of tand...
JOHN NIVEN From everything I can read about Aussie spiders, it seems like all they really like doing is hiding ...
JOHN NIVEN The Confederate flag was the flag of the American South during the civil war. It was the flag of peo...
JOHN NIVEN America has the largest nuclear capability in the world. All this power neither prevented 9/11 nor h...
JOHN NIVEN I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad g...
DAVID NIVEN I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything fro...
JOHN NIVEN The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see th...
JOHN NIVEN The last time I saw Dad alive, he was in the hospital. He was watching 'Hell Drivers,' a cru...
JOHN NIVEN It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortg...
JOHN NIVEN Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don'...
DAVID NIVEN Among the Internet's many gains for humanity, decreasing paranoia has not been one of them. Anyt...
JOHN NIVEN I love Twitter, and my little corner of it is heavily weighted in favour of women, many of them writ...
JOHN NIVEN I cannot, will never, understand these couples who hate each other, who conduct open warfare in fron...
JOHN NIVEN I was on the dole once. I loved it. It was only for a couple of years, when I was 20 or 21 and playi...
JOHN NIVEN If I hadn't had that decade in the music industry and, perhaps more importantly, time to reach t...
JOHN NIVEN I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to...
JOHN NIVEN You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.
DAVID NIVEN I've often found myself looking fondly at the Valentine's cultures in other countries. South...
JOHN NIVEN I think what an amazing world this would be if we all danced everywhere we went.
JENNIFER NIVEN I want you to know I'm rooting for you.' Sometimes we need to hear that, even from a stranger.
JENNIFER NIVEN It's okay to laugh, you know. The earth's not going to split open. You're not going to hell. Believe...
JENNIFER NIVEN I quite like the Queen. Now, this must come as a fairly amazing statement for someone who is avowedl...
JOHN NIVEN You are all the colours in one, at full brightness.
JENNIFER NIVEN You'll never even catch me doing that 'soft atheist' thing of very softly singing along ...
JOHN NIVEN For what it's worth, you showed me something, Ultraviolet - there is such a thing as a perfect day.
JENNIFER NIVEN As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, what can you do? You ca...
JENNIFER NIVEN I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of t...
JOHN NIVEN Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.
JOHN NIVEN You have been in every way all that anyone could be... If anybody could have saved me it would have ...
JENNIFER NIVEN People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.
JENNIFER NIVEN There are some sentences you cannot see yourself ever writing. 'I heartily endorse the Conservat...
JOHN NIVEN I returned from my last L.A. visit to find myself tipping the scales like Homer Simpson when he trie...
JOHN NIVEN She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.
JENNIFER NIVEN Dear friend, You are not a freak. You are wanted. You are necessary. You are the only you there is. ...
JENNIFER NIVEN Malta is a sod of a place.
DAVID NIVEN Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work o...
DAVID NIVEN I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes close...
DAVID NIVEN Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want t...
DAVID NIVEN I meant the other one.
DAVID NIVEN Realities of life for happy and unhappy people are basically the same.
DAVID NIVEN I’ve always thought you should be able to freeze time. This way you could hit the Pause button at ...
JENNIFER NIVEN I am disappearing, maybe I'm already gone.
JENNIFER NIVEN I can’t think of anything more depressing than to be an Egyptian high priest on display next to a ...
JENNIFER NIVEN Lovely is a lovely word that should be used more often.
JENNIFER NIVEN Ти си всички цветове в пълния им блясък.
JENNIFER NIVEN Тя е кислород, водород, натрий, калций и фосфор, всички �...
JENNIFER NIVEN …трябва да стигнем там, където ни отведе пътят. Това зн...
JENNIFER NIVEN Аз обичам да пиша, но обичам и много други неща. Може би ...
JENNIFER NIVEN Проблемът на хората е, че през повечето време забравят ...
JENNIFER NIVEN „Да съжаляваш и да се извиняваш, е загуба на време. Чов�...
JENNIFER NIVEN Понякога нещата ни изглеждат истински, въпреки че не с�...
JENNIFER NIVEN The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Every...
JENNIFER NIVEN You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks.
JENNIFER NIVEN The thing is, there are good days and bad days. I feel almost guilty saying they aren't all bad.
JENNIFER NIVEN If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever." There was nothing to make him...
JENNIFER NIVEN I think this is the ugliest place I’ve ever seen. Not just here. The whole state.” I hear my par...
JENNIFER NIVEN If a song's meant to stay around, you carry it with you in your bones.
JENNIFER NIVEN I walk through the black Indiana night, under a ceiling of stars, and think about the phrase "elegan...
JENNIFER NIVEN The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.
JENNIFER NIVEN And in that moment there’s nothing I fear except losing hold of her hand.
JENNIFER NIVEN I was here. TF.
JENNIFER NIVEN But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are ...
JENNIFER NIVEN You saved my life. Why couldn't I save yours?
JENNIFER NIVEN I remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. I remember her smile and her laugh...
JENNIFER NIVEN Listen, I’m the freak. I’m the weirdo. I’m the troublemaker. I start fights. I let people down...
JENNIFER NIVEN When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
JENNIFER NIVEN You know what I like about you, Finch? You’re interesting. You’re different. And I can talk to y...
JENNIFER NIVEN You deserve better. I can’t promise you I’ll stay around, not because I don’t want to. It’s ...
JENNIFER NIVEN Stars in the sky, stars on the ground. It’s hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins. ...
JENNIFER NIVEN I am on the highest branch.
We are written in paint.
I believe in signs.
The glow of ...
JENNIFER NIVEN No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.
JENNIFER NIVEN She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. The same elements that are insid...
JENNIFER NIVEN I know life well enough to know you can’t count on things staying around or standing still, no mat...
JENNIFER NIVEN We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this li...
JENNIFER NIVEN I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not every...
JENNIFER NIVEN Too many people in this world think small is the best they can do. Not you, Libby Strout. You weren'...
JENNIFER NIVEN It is a new year....It is time to get...back on the camel"
-Mr.Black
JENNIFER NIVEN It is publication week for my new novel 'The Sunshine Cruise Company.' Go me! Anyway, I may ...
JOHN NIVEN I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not every...
JENNIFER NIVEN I am, it is safe to say, not a practical man. The few attempts I've made to hammer in a nail hav...
JOHN NIVEN I have to confess to not being a great forward planner. I'm the kind of person who regularly arr...
JOHN NIVEN Ich habe gelernt, dass es auch Gutes auf der Welt gibt, wenn man genau hinschaut und danach sucht. I...
JENNIFER NIVEN Now, if you asked him what he was going to do with himself, he'd tell you he guessed he might do any...
JENNIFER NIVEN As a writer, that moment every few years when I buy a new laptop and find out that all the word proc...
JOHN NIVEN In 1912, a man named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a parachute suit he designed...
JENNIFER NIVEN You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love...
JENNIFER NIVEN I've forgotten the birthdays of everyone close to me. I have forgotten to pay bills, file tax re...
JOHN NIVEN There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is.
JENNIFER NIVEN With the indie kids you have to remember this: they really think that what they do matters in some w...
JOHN NIVEN The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.
DAVID NIVEN This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I ...
DAVID NIVEN I didn't say it.
DAVID NIVEN That's the ugliest woman I've ever seen.
DAVID NIVEN I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad g...
DAVID NIVEN I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
JENNIFER NIVEN When I was a boy during Thatcher, you watched elections and wept in disbelief as the whole country t...
JOHN NIVEN If you're one of the hundreds of thousands of people out there toiling over your unpublished man...
JOHN NIVEN If you watch a group of schoolchildren eating lunch together, you cannot help but notice how it is a...
JOHN NIVEN You make me love you,
And that could be the greatest thing my heart was ever fit to do...
JENNIFER NIVEN The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. —Ernest Hemingway
JENNIFER NIVEN Disguise the pain. Don’t call attention. Don’t be noticed.
JENNIFER NIVEN I am in pieces.
JENNIFER NIVEN You saved my life. why couldn't I save yours
JENNIFER NIVEN I turn to Libby. "You're kind. Probably the kindest person I know. You're also forgiving, at least a...
JENNIFER NIVEN I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try t...
DAVID NIVEN You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.
DAVID NIVEN I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .
DAVID NIVEN We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one.
JENNIFER NIVEN For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I'm already dead. I am w...
JENNIFER NIVEN In my dreams, I see 10 to 20 years from now, people who are 50 to 55 years old will get a cognitive ...
ANNE FAGAN NIVEN To our surprise, three of the people that were PIB-positive and had low A-beta 42 levels were clinic...
ANNE FAGAN NIVEN Our goal is to identify biomarkers, to be able to diagnose people early in the disease stage, hopefu...
ANNE FAGAN NIVEN I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID It is only when the partisan shouting stops that we can hear each other's voices and concerns.
LARRY HOGAN I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
LARRY WALL Most jokes state a bitter truth.
LARRY GELBART My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the co...
LARRY PAGE I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
LARRY DAVID The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend w...
LARRY FLYNT I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
LARRY CHARLES I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.
LARRY WILMORE Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
LARRY WILMORE The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the c...
LARRY WILMORE You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you d...
LARRY WILMORE I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
LARRY WILMORE I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh ev...
LARRY WILMORE My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm w...
LARRY WILMORE I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
LARRY WILMORE People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
LARRY WILMORE There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies th...
LARRY WILMORE If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that ...
LARRY WILMORE When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing i...
LARRY WILMORE I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
LARRY WILMORE I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and ...
LARRY WILMORE When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
LARRY WILMORE The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. An...
LARRY WILMORE The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
LARRY WILMORE Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compa...
LARRY WILMORE Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.
LARRY WILMORE I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in conten...
LARRY WILMORE