If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.


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LARRY NORMAN
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.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'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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
I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, th...
LARRY MILLER
Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for ...
LARRY MILLER
Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting...
LARRY MILLER
Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its...
LARRY MACPHAIL
I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, ...
LARRY MACPHAIL
When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go ...
LARRY MACPHAIL
The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and r...
LARRY MACPHAIL
The only way you can obtain brood mares on a basis you can afford is to buy two or three yearling fi...
LARRY MACPHAIL
It had been my idea that a combination of purebred cattle and horses could be successful from an eco...
LARRY MACPHAIL
I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within ...
LARRY MACPHAIL