No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.

Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it was the pain of nothingness. My fear was of the weather, the atmosphere, the very air. What good did safety tips do me now? 'Avoid water, metal objects, rooftops; stay off the telephone in a storm, don't think glass can protect you; even if a storm was 8 miles away, you're still not safe from a strike. Avoid life perhaps that was the answer. The number one safety tip, stay away from it all.