Ray Bradbury

"Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience."

"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together."

"Everything is generated through your own will power."

"I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking."

"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories."

"I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars."

"If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you."

"If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way."

"If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz."

"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall."

"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."

"Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'"

"My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god."

"The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible."

"Touch a scientist and you touch a child."

"Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that."