I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Quote by Ray Bradbury

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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that...

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that...

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing...

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing...

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on.

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have...

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have...

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want...

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want...

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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

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

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way...

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way...

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

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

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop...

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop...

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library,...

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library,...

Jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See...

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See...

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

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

My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything...

My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything...

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention...

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention...

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I...

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I...

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling...

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling...