You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.

Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.