Science Fiction Is The Jazz Of Literature.

What Point Was There In Pursuing An Ever-elusive Popularity?

Predicting Has A Spotty Record In Science Fiction. I've Had Some Failures. On The Other Hand, I Also Predicted The Fall Of The Berlin Wall And The Rise Of Fundamentalist Islam... And I'm Not Happy To Be Right In All Of Those Cases

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.

All This Talk Of Using Tax Policy To 'assess Social Costs'...what A Dumb Idea. The Only Way To Stop Polluters Is To Put Them Against Walls And Shoot Them.

Patience Is Fine, But I'm Not Going To Stop Asking The Universe To Make Sense!