Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“You who walk the earth know only the moment, which is whisked away with your next exhalation.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“And when a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It's the way God runs the world." Tom thought about this for a moment. "He's all right, Doug," said Tom. "He tries.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Isn't this a nice time of night to walk? I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And some day well remember so much that well build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“And what lights the sun? Its own fire. And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The sun and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Montag, falling flat, going down, saw or felt, or imagined he saw or felt the walls go dark in Millie's face, heard… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Who wants to see the Future, who ever does? A man can face the Past, but to think - the pillars crumbled,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do?… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“We'll go on the river. He looked at the old railroad tracks. Or we'll go that way. Or we'll walk on the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Ask me, then, if I believe in the spirit of the things as they were used, and I'll say yes. They're all… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“We’ll go on the river...or we’ll go that way. Or we’ll walk the highways now. And we’ll have time to put things… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Maggie Botwin. Prim, quiet lady, like an upright piano, seeming taller than she was because of the way she sat, rose and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Montag said nothing but stood looking at the women's faces as he had once looked at the faces of saints in a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“You’ll find out it’s little savors and little things that count more than big ones. A walk on a spring morning is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“See, boys?” Moundshroud’s face flickered with the fire. “The days of the Long Cold are done. Because of this one brave, new-thinking… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“…and do you know what?” “What?” “People don’t talk about anything.” “Oh, they must!” “No, not anything. They name a lot of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The feeding of the Muse then, which we have spent most of our time on here, seem to me to be the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.' — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
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… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority — Ray Bradbury Copy Share