American - Writer | August 22, 1920 - June 5, 2012
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
Ray Bradbury
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I got started as an actor when I was 12.
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We've got to dumb America up again.
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All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.
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I write screenplays in the middle of the night.
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I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.
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My favorite writers have been those who've said things well.
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'Fahrenheit 451' postulates a lot of things I didn't want to have happen.
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If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.
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Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.
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Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.
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