What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision

There is no greater life, than to love God. And to love thy neighbor as thyself.

Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.

Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

I didn't know anything about acting, much less about acting in a comedy.

Do all that you say you are going to do and don't aggress against other people or their property. That's the whole of the law. I can live with a law like that.

I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.

There's not a dime's worth of difference between Obama and Romney.

I'd say he's done more than that.