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“Any town, New York, Chicago, with its people, becomes improbable with distance. Just as I am improbable here, in Illinois, in a small town by a quiet lake. All of us improbable to one another because we are not present to one another.”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 134

“I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?”

"Why Cartoons Are Forever", Los Angeles Times (3 December 1989)

“When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life — that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.”

Playboy interview (1996)

“Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.”

Ray Bradbury book R Is for Rocket

Here There Be Tygers (1951)
R Is for Rocket (1962)

“Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.”

"A Miracle of Rare Device", in Playboy (January 1962)

“We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe…. If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.”

Speech to National School Board Association (1995)

“The news is all rapes and murders we didn't commit, funerals we don't attend, AIDS we don't want to catch. All crammed into a quarter of a minute! But at least we still have a hand with which to switch channels or turn off altogether. I tell my lecture audiences to never, ever watch local TV news.”

Playboy interview (1996)

“A life's work should be based on love.”

Barnes & Nobel Santa Monica Promenade Book Signing (2008)[citation needed]

“All floated upon an evening carrousel, with fitful drifts of music wafting up here and there, and voices calling and murmuring from houses that were whitely haunted by television.”

Ray Bradbury book The Golden Apples of the Sun

The Wilderness (1952)
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)

“Hers was simply not a pew-shaped spine.
“I just never had a reason ever to sit in a church,” she had told people. She wasn’t vehement about it. She just walked around and lived and moved her hands that were pebble-smooth and pebble-small. Work had polished the nails of those hands with a polish you could never buy in a bottle. The touching of children had made them soft, and the raising of children had made them temperately stern, and the loving of a husband had made them gentle.”

Ray Bradbury book The Golden Apples of the Sun

Powerhouse (1948)
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)

“Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.”

Ray Bradbury book The Martian Chronicles

Ylla (1950)
The Martian Chronicles (1950)

“Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.”

Speech at Brown University (1995)

“Why the fiction of ideas should be so neglected is beyond me. I can’t explain it, except in terms of intellectual snobbery. … If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me, I’d have killed myself. I think he was too hung up. I’m glad Kurt Vonnegut didn’t like me either. He had problems, terrible problems. He couldn’t see the world the way I see it. I suppose I’m too much Pollyanna, he was too much Cassandra. Actually I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past — a combination of both. But I don’t think I’m too overoptimistic.”

The Paris Review interview (2010)

“The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.”

Ray Bradbury book The Martian Chronicles

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950)
The Martian Chronicles (1950)

“It will only take a minute,” said Uncle Einar’s sweet wife.
“I refuse,” he said. “And that takes but a second.”

Ray Bradbury book R Is for Rocket

Uncle Einar (1947)
R Is for Rocket (1962)

“Well, I can’t waste a morning arguing with ten-year olds. Needless to say, I was ten myself once and just as silly.”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 71

“I’ve alway known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It’s essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don’t know.”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 151

“We have too many cellphones. We've got too many Internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.”

"Ray Bradbury hates big government: ‘Our country is in need of a revolution’" in The Los Angeles Times : Hero Complex (16 August 2010) http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/08/16/ray-bradbury-is-sick-of-big-government-our-country-is-in-need-of-a-revolution/

“I write fantasy. The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.”

“Will sensed a stir in Jim's house; Jim, too, with his fine dark antennae, must have felt the waters part high over town to let a Leviathan pass.”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), Chapter 29