I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.

The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.