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A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it.
You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.
Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.
Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.
That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.
There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.
You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.
I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.
The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them.
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.
A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.
Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.
It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.
Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?
Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.
Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.
In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.
If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.
When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.
...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.
Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.
...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.
It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!
Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I'd like to spend more time with her.
I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
What are you up to now?" "I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it.
When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.