“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
— Ray Bradbury“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
— Ray Bradbury“First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.”
— Ray Bradbury“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”
— Ray Bradbury“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
— Ray Bradbury“Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”
— Ray Bradbury“Everything that happens before Death is what counts.”
— Ray Bradbury“I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”
— Ray Bradbury“The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.”
— Ray Bradbury“Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.”
— Ray Bradbury“I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?”
— Ray BradburyYou don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
— Ray Bradbury