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

Fear is the brother of hate.

The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

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

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.

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