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"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"
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"Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs."
"They couldn't do a drugs story on me because I'd already done one on myself."
"Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe."
"We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs."
"In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use."
"I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS."
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"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."
"I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting."
"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."
"I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along."
"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
"You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."
"So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it."
"There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person."
"But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world."
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