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" I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring. "

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" If you're embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn't include weeping, then you have some personal work to do. "

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

" You fail only if you stop writing. "

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

" Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love. "

" If you are going to describe the history of animation, you'd look at the early Disney work, then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner' and other Warner Brothers theatrical productions. But when you got to 'Rocky and Bullwinkle,' you'd see they were unique: They assumed you had a brain in your head. "

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

" I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. "

" 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. "

" The Internet is a big distraction. "

" If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it. "

" Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. "

" I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took. "

" 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. "

" Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me. "

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

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

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

" My business is to prevent the future. "

" Touch a scientist and you touch a child. "

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

" Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. "

" My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god. "

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

" Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. "

" It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness. "

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

" Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being? "

" 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. "