Infantry, which means killing on foot and doesn’t have anything to do with children. - Larry Niven

For two hundred and fifty years the kzinti had not attacked human space. They had nothing to attack with. For two hundred and fifty years men had not attacked the kzinti worlds; and no kzin could understand it. Men confused them terribly.

Civilization must have become awfully stereotyped before its collapse.

Avalon was neutral. The children of Earth might die, they might thrive. Avalon would embrace their bones or the progeny with equal warmth.