"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."
"What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for."
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."