Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

they say people only hear what they want to hear, but i don't know if that is always true, i've been wanting to hear your heart and it's as silent as the moon.

Raise your hand if your calendar ever makes you feel the need for an oxygen mask!

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

Tell a man something is bad, and he's not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it's the better part of caution to listen.

The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand

Plugins can be created to unleash your creativity and break down technical barriers between the artist and his ideas.

For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination.

I wanted to get the guy who works next to me in the office something he really wants, but how do you wrap up a saloon?