The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.