Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.
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We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
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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 don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.
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May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
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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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The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time.
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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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Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists - adults, all - have a hard enough time trying to figure out where to look. It doesn't have to be that way. The greatest solutions in society are reached by corporate thinking, ruled by a motive to either make a profit or go out of business.
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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
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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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Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that.
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The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’
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Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
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There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.
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Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
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Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.
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Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.
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We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.
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From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.