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

When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what the other people think of me for paying it, and wondering if I have enough money in my pocket to pay the bill, that I don't get around to eating.

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

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

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.

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

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