Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

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

I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.

In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.