"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."
"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."
"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."
"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
"Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning."
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."