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.

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 know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science.

she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace

The object of power is power.

As a mom, you just don't have time, so you get straight to the point.

It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.

close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

Giving a politician access to your wallet is like giving a dog access to your refrigerator.