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

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

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

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

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.

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.