"From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to ...
We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth
More Ray Bradbury quotes
"Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
"They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an ...
"Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember. The great reli...
"Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will e...
"The crisis is past and all is well, the sheep returns to the fold. We're all sheep who have strayed at times. Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning,...
"But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't l...
"So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, ...
"Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin.
"They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men and no animal. That's the mistake we made when Dar...
"...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of desire, if religion was no more...
"We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
"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.
"Yell. Jump. Play. Out-run those sons-of-bitches. They'll never live the way you live. Go do it.