Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!
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When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.
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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 was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.
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We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.
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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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I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.
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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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Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.
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Write what you love and love what you write.
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The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.
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I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
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Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.
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If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.
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All education is self-discovery.
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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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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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The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.
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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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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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Most of my short stories are fantasy.
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Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.
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In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.