James Nicoll Quotes

It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.

I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.

Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.

I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.

Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say "I know what I am doing" at critical moments.

Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts

About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.

I can't help but notice that everytime I fly somewhere, other people's planes fall out of the sky.

About Antrax by Terry Brooks: I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.

After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.

Deadly nightshade is the only plant I have ever been able to get to grow for me.

You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth.

Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene.

Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.