Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.
Ray BradburyThey whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.
Ray BradburyTo solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.
Ray BradburyIf you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.
Ray BradburyMaybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!
Ray BradburyAnd what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation. So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.
Ray Bradbury