I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems… — 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 Image
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 Image
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image