Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.
— Ray Bradbury
It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.
— Ray Bradbury
Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us ... and nothing.
— Malcolm Bradbury
How rarely did otherpeople's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost
trembling thought? — Ray Bradbury
The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.
— Ray Bradbury
Of course she's read it. Half of England has read it, which is why it's vulgar to quote it.' 'Half the world has read the Bible and we quote it.
— Jennifer Bradbury
People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way. — Ray Bradbury
Most men jump at the chance to give up everything for nothing. There's nothing we're so slapstick with as our own immortal souls. — Ray Bradbury
It's bad to get up early, stand at your typewriter and work, then find it's nothing and take a bottle to bed. — Ray Bradbury
I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count. — Ray Bradbury
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book ... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt ... — Ray Bradbury
And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over. — Ray Bradbury
Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation. — Ray Bradbury
A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame. — Ray Bradbury
Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library. — Ray Bradbury
The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere. — Ray Bradbury
Because of what I loved at 7, I still get jobs in my 60's. Guess who got the job? Crazy Ray.Ray Bradbury — Sherri Rabinowitz
Ray Bradbury's entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror. — Hal Duncan
I suppose it's an unconscious little stream of wit that flows quietly under everything I do or say. — Ray Bradbury
If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done. — Ray Bradbury
went to the Rock to hide my face And the Rock cried out, "No Hiding Place, There's no Hiding Place down here. — Ray Bradbury
Who has more pockets than a magician?A boy.
Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians?
A boy's. — Ray Bradbury
That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other — Ray Bradbury
First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right. — Ray Bradbury
Jump and let's build our wings on the way down — Ray Bradbury
The Government's supposed to be there for people when nobody else is, right? But it never works like that. — Brian K. Vaughan
I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning. — Ray Bradbury
That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want. — Ray Bradbury
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing. — Ray Bradbury
I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There! — Ray Bradbury
It doesn't matter if being so alive kills a man; it's better to have the quick fever every time. — Ray Bradbury
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
What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read? — Ray Bradbury
I don't want to change sides and just be told what to do. There's no reason to change if I do that. — Ray Bradbury
Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one. — Malcolm Bradbury
Congratulations.''For what? Breathing? That's a habit, not a virtue. — Ray Bradbury
When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field. — Ray Bradbury
Live in the library, for Christ's sake! Don't live on your goddamn computers and the internet and all that crap. Go to the library! — Ray Bradbury
Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever. — Ray Bradbury
it's just how you look at it, Charlie. Things are what you want them to be. — Ray Bradbury
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury
It's a lonely life, but you're used to it now, aren't you? — Ray Bradbury
Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me. — Ray Bradbury
There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with God's voice mingling among the crystal fires. — Ray Bradbury
God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other. — Ray Bradbury
Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates. — Ray Bradbury
Enemies come, too, from opinions and thoughts. In five seconds you've made an enemy for life. Life's so short enemies must be made quickly. — Ray Bradbury
Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers." — Ray Bradbury
I'm the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It's just the opposite of love. — Ray Bradbury
One is congenitally a woman; one tries not to be, but it's a question of one's humanity. — Malcolm Bradbury
It's a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not. — Ray Bradbury
But no man's a hero to himself. — Ray Bradbury
I love to write. It's all I do. — Ray Bradbury
Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid. — Ray Bradbury
It's the Lord's space and the Lord's worlds in space, Father. We must not try to take our cathedrals with us, when all we need is an overnight case. — Ray Bradbury
But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read. — Ray Bradbury
Him a first edition of Ray Bradbury's Dark Carnival and another who thinks I owe — Tim Kreider
You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort. — Ray Bradbury
It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. — Ray Bradbury
Whatever she is now she's better than she was," said Bedloe. "Being dead is better than being dull, being dead is better than not being aware. — Ray Bradbury
Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more. — Ray Bradbury
Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power. — Ray Bradbury
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. — Ray Bradbury
The Animal does not question lif. It lives. It's very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life. — Ray Bradbury
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? — Ray Bradbury
I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring. — Ray Bradbury
That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different. — Ray Bradbury
After all, the function of a vacation is regenerative, not luxurious. It's to restore our equipment so that we can live our ordinary lives better. — Malcolm Bradbury
Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents. — Ray Bradbury
It's just ... It's just, if I didn't see these windows until today, what else did I miss? — Ray Bradbury
I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about. — Ray Bradbury
Sure, it's money runs the world," Doone agreed, seated there. "But it is music that holds down the friction. — Ray Bradbury
The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap. — Ray Bradbury
There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them. — Ray Bradbury
There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work. — Ray Bradbury
Anything that's strange is no good to the average American. If it doesn't have Chicago plumbing, it's nonsense. — Ray Bradbury
It's always someone else's husband dies, they say — Ray Bradbury
It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness. — Ray Bradbury
We can't be good unless we know what bad is, and it's a shame we're working against time. — Ray Bradbury
We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you now to know with which ear you'll listen. — Ray Bradbury
Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better? — Malcolm Bradbury
See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security. — Ray Bradbury
They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, 'Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal. — Ray Bradbury
Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it. — Ray Bradbury
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"He laughed. "That's against the law!"
"Oh. Of course. — Ray Bradbury
A life's work should be based on love. — Ray Bradbury
It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid. — Ray Bradbury
Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he's burnt his damn wings, he wonders why — Ray Bradbury
You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you. — Ray Bradbury
You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead — Ray Bradbury
There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. — Ray Bradbury
All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. — Ray Bradbury
Where strangers scanned each other's faces and found yesterday's sunrise instead of tomorrow's midnight. — Ray Bradbury
no man's a hero to himself. — Ray Bradbury
I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter. — Ray Bradbury
Don't listen," whispered Faber. "He's trying to confuse. He's slippery. Watch out. — Ray Bradbury
And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said. — Ray Bradbury
Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived. — Ray Bradbury
