1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn’t afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

I’m antisocial, they say. I don’t mix. It’s so strange. I’m very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn’t it?

He says I’m a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

The multicolored or grey lights touching their faces, but never really touching them...

And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again...

Beware the autumn people.

War is a bad thing, but peace can be a living horror.

Death doesn’t exist. It never did, it never will. But we’ve drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we’ve got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.

Live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds.