We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. Ray Bradbury More Quotes by Ray Bradbury More Quotes From Ray Bradbury And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets. Ray Bradbury poetsoulrelaxation What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read? Ray Bradbury librarybook Christ is one of the 'family' now. I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's regular peppermint stick now, all sugar crystal and saccharine - when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that ever worshiper absolutely needs. Ray Bradbury peppermintsugarson God, here and there, makes madness a calling. Ray Bradbury here-and-theremadnesscalling I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great. Ray Bradbury total-recallcoming-outremember Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it grabs me and holds me, facinates me. And then I'll run out and something about it... I write for fun. Ray Bradbury writingrunningfun I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater. Ray Bradbury stagetheaterart He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air. Ray Bradbury islandswinterchildren I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation? Ray Bradbury ducksmorningmen "Oh, ancient god, whatever your name," whispered Ahmed. "Help this lost son of a good father, this evil boy who meant no harm but slept in school, ran errands slowly, did not pray from his heart, ignored his mother, and did not hold his family in great esteem. For all this I know I must suffer. But here in the midst of silence, at the desert's heart, where even the wind knows not my name? Must I die so young? Am I to be forgotten without having been?" Ray Bradbury godmotherfather When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy. Ray Bradbury odorwindwar Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they-ve seen. Ray Bradbury wallpassionreligious I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor. Ray Bradbury strongsuccessfulthinking Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, write to tell me of this exquisite irony. Ray Bradbury readingsongbook You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were. Ray Bradbury ablepaperlooks The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you. Ray Bradbury rejectionrealwriting Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer. Ray Bradbury shadowrunningmen I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life. Ray Bradbury bitsfeltcutting We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever. Ray Bradbury moonfireforever Everything that happens before Death is what counts. Ray Bradbury before-deathhappens
