My First Thought Was Always A Cigarette.

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.

It's Clear That Science And Science Fiction Have Overlapping Populations.

That's Really What Sf Is All About, You Know: The Big Reality That Pervades The Real World We Live In: The Reality Of Change. Science Fiction Is The Very Literature Of Change. In Fact, It Is The Only Such Literature We Have.

You Can't Trust Reason. We Threw It Out Of The Ad Profession Long Ago And Have Never Missed It.

You Don't Think Progress Goes In A Straight Line, Do You? Do You Recognize That It Is An Ascending, Accelerating, Maybe Even Exponential Curve? It Takes Hell's Own Time To Get Started, But When It Goes It Goes Like A Bomb.