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" Journalism keeps you planted in the earth. "

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" Electronic books are junk. "

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

" I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I don't believe in colleges and universities. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever. "

" I find it amusing that I'm on the Internet now, because I've criticized it, but mainly I've criticized it on the basis of, 'What are you going to do with it?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I got started as an actor when I was 12. "

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

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

" The important thing is to be in love with something. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "