The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy.

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.