Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.