I.Asimov: A Memoir

by Isaac Asimov

  Isaac said, “I don’t feel self-pity because I won’t be around to see any of the possible futures. Like Hari Seldon, I can look at my work all around me and I’m comforted. I know that I’ve studied about, imagined, and written down many possible futures—it’s as if I’ve been there.”

  Once when Isaac and I talked about old age, illness, and death, he said it wasn’t so terrible to get sick and old and to die if you’ve been part of life completing itself as a pattern. Even if you don’t make it to old age, it’s still worthwhile, there’s still pleasure in that vision of being part of the pattern of life—especially a pattern expressed in creativity and shared in love.

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