When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

So much technology, so little talent.

The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.