You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.

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.

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'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

Our Body function in unity, to get things done.The body of the world should learn from out body.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

The thing we look for everywhere is, you know, music that resonates with us. This is what moves me. And hopefully my music will move someone else.

If it makes you feel better, you can tell me to screw off if you want to refuse anything, but I hope you won't because I really want to show you how to live." - Andrew Parrish

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche

Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not.