Ray Bradbury Quotes
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I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.
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And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.
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I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.
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It was a pleasure to burn.
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People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.
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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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But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.
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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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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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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.
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I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything.
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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'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.
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I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
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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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What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.
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How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?
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Without the library, you have no civilization.
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Beware the autumn people
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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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.