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" 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. "

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" If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder. "

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

" The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. "

" 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. "

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

" My goal is to entertain myself and others. "

" All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do - and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" All of my writing is God-given. "

" We've got to dumb America up again. "

" I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me. "

" I'm not a futurist. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon. "

" You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be. "

" 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. "

" Touch a scientist and you touch a child. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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