Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.
Weitere Zitate von Ray Bradbury
Zum Autor"Without the library, you have no civilization."
"Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder."
"See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security."
"And in the years when your shadow leaned clear across the land as you lay abed nights with your heartbeat mounting to the billions, his invention must let a man drowse easy in the falling leaves like the boys in autumn who, comfortably strewn in the dry stacks, are content to be a part of the death of the world..."
"I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love."
"That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you."