Ray Bradbury Quotes
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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.
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Beware the autumn people
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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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I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
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Don't talk about it; write.
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Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.
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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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The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.
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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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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.
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What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.
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I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
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You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.
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I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
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I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.
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So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.