Quotes from Ray Bradbury

We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon.

You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.

I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.

My job is to help you fall in love.

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.

The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.

I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.

Love is easy, and I love writing.

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

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.'

I don't do research. I never have.

The Internet is a big distraction.

I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

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 - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority

Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.