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 Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

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.

I got tons of treasure hidden behind your smile.#indrani(wifey)

The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.

Come let's go inside. I'm sure you and your men are hungry.""Yes, " Allan said, grinning."Shameless, " I heard David grunt."There is no glory in shame, " Allan said back.

Politics is but the common pulse beat.

My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter.

I don't have to worry about how my movies sell because I'm not the guy in front.

Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source.

You know. I don't think I'm gonna be Jewish for very long.

Silence is sometimes the only way to share the unsharable.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.