That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

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

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

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

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

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