You're hoping to attract some non-race fans. Casual fans are not into it yet. They think the race season runs from Memorial Day through Labor Day. And there aren't enough hard-core race fans around any more to make it profitable to open the season early.


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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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.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
Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. I...
LARRY MCMURTRY
Self-parody is the first portent of age.
LARRY MCMURTRY
Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
LARRY MCMURTRY
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: w...
LARRY MCMURTRY
If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone ...
LARRY MCMURTRY
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends&#...
LARRY MCMURTRY
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity fro...
LARRY MCMURTRY
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a nati...
LARRY MCMURTRY
A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
LARRY MCMURTRY
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