Ray Bradbury Quotes, Thoughts and images

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness

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

Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failure but as a wrong address.

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

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

Creativity is a continual surprise.

I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep a sense of wonder.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.

Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.

See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.