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

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.

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.

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

That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

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