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Quotes from Playboy interview — Ray Bradbury

1920–2012 United States

← All quotes by Ray Bradbury

16 quotes

The way to teach in this world is to pretend you're not teaching.

Playboy interview (1996)

You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.

Playboy interview (1996)

I foresaw political correctness 43 years ago.

Playboy interview (1996)

We should be back on the moon right now.

Playboy interview (1996)

Listen, you can't turn really bright people into robots. You can turn dumb people into robots, but that's true in every society and system.

Playboy interview (1996)

There is no reason to write pornography when your own sex life is good. Why waste time writing about it?

Playboy interview (1996)

Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.

Playboy interview (1996)

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

Playboy interview (1996)

We need space for reasons we have not as yet discovered, and I don't mean Tupperware.

Playboy interview (1996)

We need something larger than ourselves — that's a real religious activity. That's what space travel can be — relating ourselves to the universe.

Playboy interview (1996)

I use a scientific idea as a platform to leap into the air and never come back. This keeps them angry at me.

Playboy interview (1996)

Most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things.

Playboy interview (1996)

It's the work that identifies you.

Playboy interview (1996)

They both want to control you.

Playboy interview (1996)

Don't tell me how to write my novel. Don't tell me you've got a better ending for it. I have no time for that.

Playboy interview (1996)

I believe in Darwin and God together. It's all one. It's all mysterious. Look at the universe. It's been here forever. It's totally impossible.

Playboy interview (1996)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ray Bradbury (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.