“Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember.”

— Ray Bradbury, The Paris Review interview, The Art of Fiction No. 203 (Spring 2010)

About Ray Bradbury

1920 – 2012

American author of "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles".

“While our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.”

“Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.”

“Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”

“The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness.”

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”