Bradbury Quotes
Bradbury Quote of the day
Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.
Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.
It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.
Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.
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.
Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.
The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.
I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.
In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story.
In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.
Ray Bradbury was not ahead of his time. He was perfectly of his time, and more than that: he created his time and left his mark on the time that followed.
Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly.
Oh God. Goddammit. I never got to see the pyramids. Or the Taj Mahal. I ...I never even got to leave the country.""Don't sweat it, brother. You got to live in NYC. You didn't miss shit.
You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.
The Government's supposed to be there for people when nobody else is, right? But it never works like that.
We lived longer but at a price. We had to be our own children, having none.
Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin.
Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest.
Don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.
No, " said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.
For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me
