This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Action is hope. There is no hope without action.

What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.

My business is to prevent the future.