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"I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be."
"Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again."
"We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future."
"The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes."
"I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."
"How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure."
"If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you."
"I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them."
"Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction."
"I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years."
"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity."
"It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime."
"I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools."
"I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing."
"Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness."
"Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love."
"Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything."
"You can't try to do things; you simply must do them."
"Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life."