Ray Bradbury Quotes

It could reach up and grab the moon.

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!

A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")

Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.

I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what.

For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.

The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them.

Write. Don't think. Relax.

His flesh took paleness from his bones.

They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.

I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it.

You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.

So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous.

Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.

And some day well remember so much that well build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up.

Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.

Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.

"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.

Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.

Digression is the soul of wit.

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community.

We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us.

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid.

Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery, son.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth

There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with God's voice mingling among the crystal fires.

Are you happy?

And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again...

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Don't they get afraid, then?""They have a religion for that.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...

Why is it, " he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?""Because I like you, " she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

Libraries raised me.

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.