In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do 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.

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.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.

No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.

Donald Trump is saying we're going to end the lawlessness at the border and we're going to push Mexico to do better. So there's been a reaction by the activist community to attack him.

"Sometimes" is sometimes "not never".

Table the label and wear your own name.

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.

The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.