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

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

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

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

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.

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

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.