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" We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now. "

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" Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. "

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

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" I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her? "

" You fail only if you stop writing. "

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" The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love. "

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

" A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being? "

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

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

" Burroughs is crap. Crap. "

" I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention. "

" My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off. "