Ray Bradbury Quotes
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I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?
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You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.
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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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We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us.
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I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books.
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Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.
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You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it.
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I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.
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Life is about trying things to see if they work.
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The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
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I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
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That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.
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Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.
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Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they-ve seen.
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There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
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When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.
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For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there ARE. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
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Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt
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My goal is to entertain myself and others.
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Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.
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From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.
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The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.
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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.