I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.

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

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if that were all they had. It is religion that recruits their squadrons. Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand the actual arguments for - of even against - evolution, march in the army of the night, their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason.

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.