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

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 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.

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

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.

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