Ray Bradbury

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.

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.

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

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

When you embark for strange places don’t leave any of yourself safely at the shore… Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

Youth should not be slandered. Boy nature and girl nature are less repressed and therefore more wholesome today than before. If they at times seem unimpressed by their elders, it is probably because we make a matter of authority what should be a matter of conference. These young people are new people sent to this scene by Destiny to take our places. They come with new visions to fulfill, new powers to exploit.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.

Shoot for the moon. If you miss you’ll still end up in the stars.

You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about! You’re crazy!

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children… the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

No one can be helped unless he can be put in the way of helping himself.