I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

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

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

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.

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