I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies