"Creativity is a continual surprise...." - Quote by Ray Bradbury

“They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" No. Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it." Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.”

“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”

“I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”

“In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.”

“The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.”

“I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.”

“That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.”

“Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.”

“Life is a series of surprises.”