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.

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

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.

When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what the other people think of me for paying it, and wondering if I have enough money in my pocket to pay the bill, that I don't get around to eating.

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.