1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under every tree is a shadow, right? So, then, what makes night? I'll tell you: shadows crawling out from under five billion trees! Think of it! Shadows running around in the air, muddying the waters you might say. If only we could figure a way to keep those darn five billion shadows under those trees, we could stay up half the night, Doug, because there'd be no night!

The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we musn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.

Queer duck. Sensible, though. Stay that way, Dougie-boy. Fear nothing, ever in life. Life's full of things not worth fearing. Bodies are bodies and blood is blood. The only bad things are those we make in our minds. We teach each other fear. We learn reactions to certain stimuli.

Mistakes can be profited by.

And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right.

How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

Fire is bright and fire is clean.