People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

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.

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.

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

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

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