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

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

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

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

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

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

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

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 get for a diploma is, you die.

For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.

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 cigarette.

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

Grass is food for elephants, but a cushion for lions.

The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

I think just vocally I have a little timber in my voice that God gave me that does work - it puts my own DNA onto it.

There are six chakras or energy vortexes that lie along that tube. There is a seventh chakra located several inches above the head, but it is not connected.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!

I am too nervous to eat pie.

I have a natural propensity to work on big piles of poop.

Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

Work up imagination to the state of vision.