1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

It was pretty silly quoting poetry around free and easy like that. It was the act of a silly damn snob. Give man a few lines of verse and he thinks he’s the Lord of all Creation. You think you can walk on water with all your books. Well, the world can get by just fine without them.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

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

Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it’ll be full of people.

The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool.

Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

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

I don’t believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.