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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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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
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"Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind."
Family
"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"
Drugs
"I used to not back down from a challenge."
Challenge
"Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus."
Education
"It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long."
Character
"I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir."
School
"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."
Work
"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."
Science
"Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people."
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"Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important."
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"I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know."
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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."
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"It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics."
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"I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke."
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"Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?"
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"But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to."
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"I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them."
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"I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit."
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"I'm very fond of drugs."
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