“And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”— Ray Bradbury, books.google.com
“We'll just start walking today and see the world and the way the world walks around and talks, the way it really looks. I want to see everything now. And while none of it well be me when it goes in, after a while it'll all gather together inside and it'll be me. Look at the world out there, my God,…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“The Animal does not question life. It lives. It's very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith had always given us answers to all things. But it all went down the drain with Freud and Darwin. We were a…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“And, after all, isn’t that what life is all about, the ability to go around back and come up inside other people’s heads to look out at the damned fool miracle and say: oh, so that’s how you see it!? Well, now, I must remember that.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful w…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I’m alive. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“The quality of death, like that of life, must be of an infinite variety, and if one has already died once, then what was there to look for in dying for good and all, as he was now?”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“To be asleep is to be dead. It is like death. So we dance, we dance so as not to be dead. We do not want that.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“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.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com