Ray Bradbury Quotes

I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago.For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want...

I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths. No one wanted them back. No one missed them.

I suppose it's an unconscious little stream of wit that flows quietly under everything I do or say.

I think I begin to see where everything fell apart. The books I read, jetsam to you. Junk. Why didn't we realize that ten years back? Lots of things you don't notice when you're- he slowed- in love.

I was amused and somewhat astonished at a critic a few years back who wrote an article analyzing Dandelion Wine plus the more realistic works of Sinclair Lewis, wondering how I could have been born an...

I'll be darned! said Douglas. I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!And it's kind of sad, said Tom, sitting still.There's nothing we can do to help them.

I'm antisocial,they say. I don't mix. It's so strange.I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this. She rattl...

I'm burning a way of life, just like that way of life is being burned clean of Earth right now. Forgive me if I talk like a politician. I am, after all, a former state governor, and I was honest and t...

I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.

If only someone else's flesh and brain and memory. If only they could have taken her mind along to the dry cleaner's and emptied the pockets and steamed and cleansed it and reblocked it and brought it...

If they give you lined paper, write the other way.

If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy, or both. You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war.

If you hid your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.

Ignorance is fatal, M. Garrett

Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, o...

Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?

In the silence, our stage whisper might carry.

Is it because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the world? Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor and we just don’t care if they are? I’ve heard rumors; the wor...

Is there a Bible chapter, I wonder? Futilities, verse four, paragraph two?''There will be.''And will I write it?''I have faith in you, Father!''Reverend!' he cried.'Reverend,' I said.