1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

I’m numb and I’m tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I’d been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I’m soaked to the skin with emotion.

Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there’ll be no “charge” left. You can’t father children that way.

You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.

When you write – explode – fly apart – disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.

We’ve let too much time go by. We’ve been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that’s what space travel is all about. It’s all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college.

And if it’s around October twentieth and everything smoky-smelling and the sky orange and ash gray at twilight, it seems Halloween will never come in a fall of broomsticks and a soft flap of bed-sheets around corners.

It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can’t breathe.

All isn’t well with the world.