Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

No trilogy should have more than four books.

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

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.