Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee-at least not all the time.

. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

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

No trilogy should have more than four books.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.