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" I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing. "

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" 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. "

" My favorite writers have been those who've said things well. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War. "

" Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't do research. I never have. "

" I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys. "

" Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. "

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

" If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it. "

" It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars. "

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

" The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness. "

" I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. "

" 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. "

" You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you. "

" All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not. "

" 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. "