Ray Bradbury Quotes
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It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.
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Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
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I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.
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There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.
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Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.
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He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
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Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.
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Are you happy?" she Clarisse said. "Am I what?" he Montag cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.
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I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.
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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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There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.
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I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
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You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.
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The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.
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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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Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.
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I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know.
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Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.