My Old English Buddy, John Rackham, Wrote

The Big New Development In My Life Is, When I Turned 80, I Decided I No Longer Have To Do Four Pages A Day. For Me, It's Like Retiring.

I Was Thinking Of Writing A Little Foreword Saying That History Is, After All, Based On People's Recollections, Which Change With Time.

I Don't Think The Scientific Method And The Science Fictional Method Are Really Analogous. The Thing About Them Is That Neither Is Really Practiced Very Much, At Least Not Consciously. But The Fact That They Are Methodical Does Relate Them.

What Were We Doing Here? Traveling Hundreds Or Thousands Of Light-years, To Break Our Hearts?

For Someone To Be Taken Seriously It Was Valuable To Have The Appearance Of Someone Who Deserved To Be Taken Seriously.