The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

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

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

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

There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.

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.