I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.