Ray Bradbury

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. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

Life is trying things to see if they work.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

I didn’t find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.

The most beautiful woman is the one who is never divulging, she knows what she is and everything else is worth her.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.