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.

What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.

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.

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.