The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

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

You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.

For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.