For Civilization To Survive, The Human Race

Coming Up With Ideas Is The Easiest Thing On Earth. Putting Them Down Is The Hardest.

Science Fiction Makes The Implausible Possible, While Science Fantasy Makes The Impossible Plausible.

If You Have The Temerity To Try To Dramatize A Theme That Involves Any Particular Social Controversy Currently Extant. . . Then You're In Deep Trouble.

I Think Willa Cather Did A Short Story Called "paul's Case," And In It, When He Finally Commits Suicide, It Says, "he Surrendered To The Black Design Of Things." And That's What I Anticipate Death Will Be: A Totally Unconscious Void In Which You Float Through Eternity With No Particular Consciousness Of Anything. I Think Once Around Is Enough. I Don't Want To Start It All Over Again.

I'm A Western-cultured Man Who Subscribes To The Ancient Saw That Men Do Not Cry, I Don't Cry Either. I'll Go To A Movie, For Example, And Not Infrequently Something Triggers The Urge To Weep, But I Don't Allow Myself.