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" Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I'd like to spend more time with her. "

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" Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it. "

" The important thing is to be in love with something. "

" Electronic books are junk. "

" We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever. "

" We're all dreamers. "

" If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself. "

" My goal is to entertain myself and others. "

" The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. "

" There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work. "

" I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count. "

" I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. "

" Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience. "

" When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination. "

" Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together. "

" You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do - and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time. "

" Burroughs is crap. Crap. "

" A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. "

" I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work. "

" After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained. "

" Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive. "

" I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her? "

" I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life. "

" I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me. "

" I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter. "

" If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you. "

" You can't try to do things; you simply must do them. "

" We are anthill men upon an anthill world. "

" When you're older you want to learn from other people. "

" Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. "

" Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it. "