Ray Bradbury

I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

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

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

Life is trying things to see if they work.

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.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise?

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That is very serious!