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

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" Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Libraries raised me. "

" I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books. "

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

" 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. "

" Burroughs is crap. Crap. "

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

" All of my writing is God-given. "

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

" Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. "

" You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. "

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

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

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

" If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. "

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

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

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

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

" I write screenplays in the middle of the night. "

" We are anthill men upon an anthill world. "

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

" 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. "

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

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