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

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.

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

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

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

You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.

Science fiction is the very literature of change.