'The Devil in the Dark' impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.