Quotes from Ray Bradbury

That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe. If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.

Life should be touched, not strangled.

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.

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.

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.

There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you.

That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.