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

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

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

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.