Quotes from Ray Bradbury

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves.

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

God, here and there, makes madness a calling.

All of my writing is God-given.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

Joy is the grace we say to God.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.

Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

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 the future.