The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.
SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.
Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.
An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
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.