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

Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

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

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.

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.