The day of the android has dawned.

It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.