Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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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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There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.
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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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When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.
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(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)
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Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.
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I started writing every day. I never stopped.
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Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.
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Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.
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If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
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Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.
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Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.
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The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.
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You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.
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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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Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.
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If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.
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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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Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
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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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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.
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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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I don't know anything anymore