Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradburywas an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 August 1920
CityLos Angeles, IL
CountryUnited States of America
autumn people
Beware the autumn people
stars fear boys
When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.
years looks done
The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.
goes-on edges remorse
From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.
girl running doors
He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.
long skins burning
He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.
animal laughing fudge
The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? And certainly we are rediculous little animals wallowing in the fudge bowl, and God must love us all the more because we appeal to his humor.
men ironic midst
I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!
insane arguing
You're insane!" "I won't argue that point.
hero men
But no man's a hero to himself.
book law laughed
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.
numbness emptiness empty
How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?
hero men knowing
But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes
rain tired forty-eight
I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.