Ray Bradbury

That's the good part of dying when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy.

You can't try to do things you simply must do them.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile delinquency.

All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It’s my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I’ve won or lost. At sunrise, I’m out again, giving it the old try.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

My stories have led me through my life. They shout, I follow. They run up and bite me on the leg— I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE ENEMY OF ALL ART, BE IT ACTING, WRITING, PAINTING, OR LIVING ITSELF, WHICH IS THE GREATEST ART OF ALL.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.