Ray Bradbury

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

Life is trying things to see if they work.

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.

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

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

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits not because recompense is a pleasure for them, but because obligation is a pain.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven’t as yet arrived.