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

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

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.

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

You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.

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

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