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

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" In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior. "

" Touch a scientist and you touch a child. "

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

" Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.' "

" Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. "

" My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. "

" I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great. "

" All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers. "

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

" In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially. "

" Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it. "

" My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off. "

" If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done. "

" Burroughs is crap. Crap. "

" Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. "

" The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. "

" There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people. "

" We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. "

" I have fun with ideas; I play with them. "

" I don't control my writing - it controls me. "

" Facts are not interesting to me. "

" I don't believe in colleges and universities. "

" Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did. "

" We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. "

" When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. "

" Everything is generated through your own will power. "

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

" We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. "

" I write screenplays in the middle of the night. "