You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.

On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.

People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.