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

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

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

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

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.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

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.