It's gone away, it's gone back to the Deeps. It's learned you cant love anything too much in this world.
ray bradbury, the fog horn
“I’ll hold on to the world tight some day. I’ve got one finger on it now; that’s a beginning.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“waiting out there, and waiting out there, while man comes and goes on this pitiful little planet. waiting and waiting.”
illustration for "the fog horn" by ray bradbury
The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them.
R is for Rocket, Ray Bradbury
“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”
— Ray Bradbury
The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse
“The mob-mind, said his subconscious. You're symbolic of the crowd. They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But they're fascinated with the snake-pit.”
— Ray Bradbury
The October Country - Book Cover
“So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.”
— Ray Bradbury, “Zen in the Art of Writing”
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
-Ray Bradbury