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.

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.

It never ends, the bruiseof being

Fairies black grey green and white You moonshine revellers and shades of night.

Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions.

I was seeing everything through pain.

I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.

He might want to watch where he lands when tackling that guy, because he could really hurt his hand if it gets stepped on.

Any time you try to apply conventional techniques to Donald Trump, you're going to be disappointed.

The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.