We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping what is otherwise the sure destruction of all that humanity has struggled to achieve for 50,000 years?

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.