…It’s a great place to grow up as a creator because there’s no intellectual hierarchy. I remember going to a party in New York about 35 years ago. They all called me Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon.
I said, “You, ma’am, your name and phone number? And you, sir, your phone number? And you, sir?”
And they said, “Why are you taking our phone numbers?”
I said, “Because the night we land on the moon, you’re going to get called.”
I was in London when we did. I called three of them, and when they answered I said, “Stupid son of a bitch,” and hung up.
—Ray Bradbury
“Sci-Fi For Your D: Drive.” Newsweek 13 November 1995: 89. (+)
