Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write.

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

Never tell a computer to forget it.

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

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

It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.

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.