Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

The village is coming back, like it or not.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

Determining who the members of your audience are is the most important piece in the business puzzle.

Don't walk out of here. I can't lose you.

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

I don't look at polls, I pay no attention to them. I pay attention to the public, and the sense of where the public is on certain things, but you have to lead.

You've got to live life to the fullest. You just enjoy every beautiful thing there is to enjoy.

If we're talking about being skinny or losing weight, I don't have that problem; it's genetics.

Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.

When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.

Being able to laugh got me through.