1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.

The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these people put together these jet propulsion labs in Pasadena and wound up sending aircraft and spacecraft to the moon. So it all began very primitively with love.

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

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time.

I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed now, and I've seen too many people killed in my life when I drove across the country when I was 12. I'm sure that has a lot to do with it. If you see a few real dead bodies with brains on the pavement, it does a lot to change your attitude. It means you can get it too. I've had a lot of relatives killed. I've had a lot of dear friends killed. It's stupid. The whole activity is stupid.