If there is a misuse of power, it is on her part. My crime is that I have never labored to make myself popular — I admit that much — and I have paid … - Isaac Asimov

I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters [...] In between two of the segments she asked me [...] "But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?" I said, "Type faster." This was widely quoted, but the "six months" was changed to "six minutes," which bothered me. It's "six months."

But you are telling me, Susan, that the 'Society for Humanity' is right; and that Mankind has lost its own say in its future.' 'It never had any, really. It was always at the mercy of economic and sociological forces it did not understand — at the whims of climate, and the fortunes of war.

The Executive Council of the Second Foundation was in session. To us they are merely voices. Neither the exact scene of the meeting nor the identity of those present are essential at this point. Nor, strictly speaking, can we even consider an exact reproduction of any part of the session — unless we wish to sacrifice completely even the minimum comprehensibility we have a right to expect.