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

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

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

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.

The philosophy of a person speaks of what dictates or governs how and what someone believes.

Honesty has a power that very few people can handle

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.

I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.