Ray Quotes

I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.

I do know what my first meal in the next world would be Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.

I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.

I make a dog-friendly version of almost everything that we make for dinner.

When men I have dated over the years whined about, ‘Oh, you make no time for me’ – see ya! I just dumped them. I don’t need that pressure in my life.

You don't feel as self-conscious if your clothes fit.

I think that celebrities are just people, like everybody else, and they've got the foodie bug in them too.

Whatever it is that you're successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal. In my case, it's accessibility. So all of my products have to be usable, accessible, affordable.

I cook and I chat. That's what I do. I love to write recipes, but basically, if you had to put it in a nutshell, I cook and I chat.

All education is self-discovery.

If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Do what you love, don't do anything else.

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

All of my writing is God-given.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.

We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe. If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.

A library is all the university you will ever need.

Facts are not interesting to me.

Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.

I shall remain on Mars and read a book.

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.

I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.

A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it.

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.

Love what you do and do what you love.