Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.
— Ray Bradbury
Everything is generated through your own will power.
Facts are not interesting to me.
I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.
I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
We're all dreamers.
My goal is to entertain myself and others.
I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.
I don't believe in colleges and universities.
Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.
You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
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.
All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not.
It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.
I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.
All of my writing is God-given.
The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
My business is to prevent the future.
Most of my short stories are fantasy.
I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.
Libraries raised me.
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.
Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.
My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.
The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.
It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.
I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?
The important thing is to be in love with something.
There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.
I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
When you're older you want to learn from other people.
Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.
I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
