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.

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

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.

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.

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.

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.