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I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.

I quite enjoy science fiction.

Science fiction is an extension of science.

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.

Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.