"A life's work should be based on..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury

“...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.”

“A library is all the university you will ever need.”

“As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.”

“I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.”

“Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.”

“You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.”

“He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.”

“Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.”

“In love, you pay as you leave.”