I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.

The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.