"For it is a mad world and..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury
For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.
More by Ray Bradbury
“Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful woman.”
“Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.”
“Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.”
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“I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.”
“And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.”
“I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've never had that. Life is like a song to me. I just hear everything in music, so I have never once thought "Well, I'm never gonna be able to write again." I've got thousands of songs.”
More on Freedom
“The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want.”
“Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.”
“Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.”