I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, "If you've got a message, use Western Union."

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be different and hopefully better than the present. Although I know that most - that many science fiction writings have been anti-utopias. And the reason for that is that it's much easier and more exciting to write about a really nasty future than a - placid, peaceful one.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.

Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.