To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.