Ray Bradbury Quotes
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And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again.
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Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.
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Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.
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A life's work should be based on love.
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Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?
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Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.
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I believe in Darwin and God together.
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
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I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.
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Without the library, you have no civilization.
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You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.
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...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.
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You fail only if you stop writing.
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The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.
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You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!
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I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.
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In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other.
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The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
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Today we haved touched Mars. There is life on Mars, and it us us-extensions of our eyes in all directions, extensions of our mind, extensions of our heart and soul have touched Mars today. That's the message to look for there: We are on Mars. We are the Martians!
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There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.
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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.
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I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.
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You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year