You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.

I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.

I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me.

That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her.

Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to.

Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must.

Ray Bradbury was not ahead of his time. He was perfectly of his time, and more than that: he created his time and left his mark on the time that followed.