Ray Bradbury

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

My business is to prevent the future.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

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.

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

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

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

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.