Martian Chronicles Quotes by Ray Bradbury, Joseph Brodsky and many others.
The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.
Live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds.
Garrett,” said Stendahl, “do you know why I’ve done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe’s books without really reading them. You took other people’s advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you’d have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.
You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
Stuff your eyes with wonder.
See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
The Martians were there – in the canal – reflected in the water…. The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.
Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I’ve got what amounts to a religion , now .
We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.
I’m being ironic. Don’t interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it’s not polite. There!
It is good to renew one’s wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
