Ray Bradbury Quotes
In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.
The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.
It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.
Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.
For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.
We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe. If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.
Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.
The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.
Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.
I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.
Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.
Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.
Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.
The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.
But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes
I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.
You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.
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.
Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.
When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.
I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.
Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.
A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.
