Beware the autumn people

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these people put together these jet propulsion labs in Pasadena and wound up sending aircraft and spacecraft to the moon. So it all began very primitively with love.

My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.