Ray Bradbury

“I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.”

“We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 yea...”

“Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'”

“I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.”

“Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.”

“I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.”

“I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.”

“If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.”

“If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself.”

“In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.”

“You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be.”

“Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.”

“I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.”

“I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time.”

“I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.”

“We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.”

“Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.”

“Touch a scientist and you touch a child.”

“I write screenplays in the middle of the night.”

“All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.”