Ray Bradbury quotes

" You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. " # Books - Reading

" You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. " # Alcohol and Alcoholism

" Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down " # Risk # Life and Living # Courage

" We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. " # Impossibility

" First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down. " # Fear

" Touch a scientist and you touch a child. " # Science and Scientists

" The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance— the idea that anything is possible. " # Science and Scientists

" Only six months ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with the censorship and book-burning in the future, wrote to tell me of this exquisite irony. Judy-Lynn Del Rey, one of the new Ballantine editors, is having the entire book reset and republished this summer with all the damns and hells back in place. " # Books - Reading

" If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Friends and Friendship # Cynics and Cynicism

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