God, here and there, makes madness a calling.

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.