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
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.
good-writers
Good writers touch life often.
book madness wit
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.
crazy rain thinking
Hello!" He said hello and then said, "What are you up to now?" "I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. "I don't think I'd like that," he said. "You might if you tried." "I never have." She licked her lips. "Rain even tastes good." "What do you do, go around trying everything once?" he asked. "Sometimes twice.
college everyday library
You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.
wife forgiving peculiar
You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.
play tyranny-of-the-majority up-to-you
Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.
enemy captains majority
But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority