In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. - Isaac Asimov

"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."

"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."