It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

Every time I go past a cinema and see a queue out the door, I think, look at those fools, every penny they spend is turned into profits that are used to pass laws imprisoning their own children. Can't they see?