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

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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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" Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination. "

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" I'm not a futurist. "

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

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" Journalism keeps you planted in the earth. "

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" 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. "

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" You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn. "

" We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now. "

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" 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. "

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

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