Ray Bradbury

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

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

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

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.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.