Never start a war with something you can't talk to.

Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words — if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night — do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match?

I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.

There are three kinds of people I've found: those who think the universe is good, those who believe it's corrupt, and those who don't want to think about it any more than they can help. I prefer the first two.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!

Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.