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

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

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

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.

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

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.