I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.