The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your own sense of dialogue, in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air, like little tiny items of ozone.

I would guess that Ray Bradbury would be equally resentful of what they did with Illustrated Man, which, you know, took a central idea thesis of his and pissed all over it - made it into one of the worst movies ever made.