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There Will Come Soft Rains
“And one voice, with sublime disregard for the situation, read poetry aloud in the fiery study, until all the film spools burned, until all the wires withered and the circuits cracked.”
— Ray Bradbury
The Crowd
“How swiftly a crowd comes… like the iris of an eye closing in out of nowhere.”
— Ray Bradbury
‘It’s not you I worry about,’ said Douglas. ‘It’s the way God runs the world.’
Tom thought about this for a moment.
‘He’s all right, Doug,’ said Tom. ‘He tries.’
Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
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 One Who Waits
“We bend to the well, looking down. From the cool depths six faces peer back up at us.
One by one we bend until our balance is gone, and one by one drop into the mouth and down through cool darkness into the cold waters.”
— Ray Bradbury
The Fog Horn
“That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.”
— Ray Bradbury
The Murderer
“Why didn't I start a solitary revolution, deliver man from certain 'conveniences'? 'Convenient for who?'”
— Ray Bradbury
The Last Night of the World
“Maybe because it was never October 19, 1969, ever before in history, and now it is and that’s it; because this date means more than any other date ever meant; because it’s the year when things are as they are all over the world and that’s why it’s the end.”
— Ray Bradbury