“We can't be good unless we know what bad is, and it's a shame we're working against time.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“They want to know what I do with all my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite. — 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
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
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
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
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
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time. I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Well, Montag, take my word for it, I've had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“No," said the old man, deep under. "I don't remember anyone winning anywhere any time. War's never a winning things, Charlie. You… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the… — 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
“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
“Tom," she said, faintly, far away, "in the Southern Seas there's a day in each man's life when he knows it's time… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Seemed to me a phone was an impersonal instrument. If it felt like it, it let your personality go through its wires.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Hold onto one thought: You're not important. You're not anything. Some day the load we're carrying with us may help someone. But… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“A long time back, she thought, I dreamed a dream, and was enjoying it so much when someone wakened me, and that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Some day the load we're carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers. — 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
Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. — 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
