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

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

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.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

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

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