Ray Quotes

Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.

Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.

It could reach up and grab the moon.

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!

A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")

Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.

I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what.

For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.

The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them.

Write. Don't think. Relax.

His flesh took paleness from his bones.

They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.

I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it.

You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.

So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous.

Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.

And some day well remember so much that well build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up.

Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.

Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.

"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.

Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.

Digression is the soul of wit.

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community.

We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us.

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.

The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.

The role of the designer is basically that of a good host, anticipating the needs of the guest.

I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck.

I don't blame Bill Maher for mocking religion. I can see why he took the trouble to make the movie. In one sense, it's overdue.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.

That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.

Forget about what the technology is. Just understand the motivation behind it.

Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.

I think the basic problem is that everybody thinks they know what the truth is, and sometimes they're even distorting the truth to make their arguments.

Each person assesses each other person's credibility on different dimensions, because people are strong and weak in different things.

I'm scared of people with power making the decision.

You have to put yourself in my shoes as a person who believes in radical truth and in being radically transparent, not in seeing things through somebody else's eyes.

We don't have ways of resolving the arguments in idea meritocratic way.