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" If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it. "

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" 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. "

" Journalism keeps you planted in the earth. "

" All of my writing is God-given. "

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

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

" There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "

" When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things. "

" Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor. "

" I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time. "

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

" 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. "

" If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Facts are not interesting to me. "

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

" 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. "

" Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. "

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

" I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating. "

" Touch a scientist and you touch a child. "

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

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