Ray Bradbury

We are cups constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

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.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

Libraries raised me.

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

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

If you dream the proper dreams and share the myths with people they will want to grow up to be like you.

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.

I'm not a serious person and I don't like serious people.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love you'll never make it.

I have fun with ideas, I play with them.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

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

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

If you know how to read you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers and we should keep it that way.

All of my writing is God-given.

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

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

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

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

The major networks the cable networks they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well c'mon that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

Ideas excite me and as soon as I get excited the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

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

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

All of us no matter how we look born into this world feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

Jump and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

I felt a bit bookish cut off from life.

If you don't like what you're doing then don't do it.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

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

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love something to live for.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish the idea lets go and runs off.

My business is to prevent the future.

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.

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

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Facts are not interesting to me.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.