The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

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

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

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.

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

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