The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

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.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

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

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

You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.

Science fiction is the very literature of change.