Quotes from Ray Bradbury

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.

The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.

When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

'Fahrenheit 451' postulates a lot of things I didn't want to have happen.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

I'm ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don't watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you're doing and it's the first time, really.

A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

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

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.

A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time," she said. "I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")

And some day well remember so much that well build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up.

The mosquitos were gone from the porch, and surely when they abandoned the conflict the war with Time was really done, there was nothing for it but that humans also forsake the battleground.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.