I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

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.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

When people start getting depressed there’s just no end to it—things just seem to get worse and worse.

Change takes time, forethought and knowledge, as well as an envisioned goal.

BLAKE: I’ve come to learn that people are going to hate you and like you, no matter what. I’d rather be around people I want to be around.

A sky full of silent suns.

NCLB should be called "More Children Left behind".

If we control the ball, they pay.

I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot.

In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.

So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.