On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story..

You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it..

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction..

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring..

Science fiction is the very literature of change..

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigar….

The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be able to convince the….

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations..

That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you ….

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it..

People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research..

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bra….

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated..

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced v….

When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what the other people think of me for paying….

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport..

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind..

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam..

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time..

What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?.

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the ….