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" There might be children in Somalia or the Arctic who have never heard of 'Hamlet' or the 'Great Gatsby.' But you can bet they know 'Tarzan.' "

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" I'm a storyteller. If I have that on my precis when I go, 'Storyteller,' I'm satisfied with that. "

" I have no mouth, and I must scream. "

" When belief in a god dies, the god dies. "

" I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are ultimately derogatory, and I eschew them as best I can. "

" I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight. "

" I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid. "

" You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. "

" I'm like a snake sleeping on a rock. I won't bother you unless you poke a stick at me. "

" Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future. "

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" I go to bed angry every night, and I get up angrier every morning. "

" Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race. "

" History will decide if I'm a villain or a hero. "

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" All you have to do is look out around you at the good things you've done, and you'll know how good you are. "

" Nobody escapes age and gravity. "

" You watch enough TV, and very soon the inside of your head has become a vast, arid plain, across which you cannot detect the passage of a thought. "

" People keep saying that books will never die out. Well, books may never die out, but hundreds of thousands of individual writers will, and for them, it's as if books did die out. "

" It was a superlative joy of my long life to have worked with Leonard Nimoy, who became my friend, and many others at 'Star Trek.' "

" Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams. "

" Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter. "

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" Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled. "

" I'm real tall when I stand on my charisma. "