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

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

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

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

" In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior. "

" We're all dreamers. "

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

" I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. "

" 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. "

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

" Most of my short stories are fantasy. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it. "

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

" My business is to prevent the future. "

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

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

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

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

" I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. "