Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.
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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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I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
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I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
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You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.
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If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.
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Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.
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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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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
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Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
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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'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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Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
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We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.
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Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.
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Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.
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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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Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.
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When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity.
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Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.