A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. – Ray Bradbury
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you dont know how to read, you dont know how to decide. Thats the great thing about our country – were a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. – Ray Bradbury
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. – Ray Bradbury
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. – Ray Bradbury
My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East. – Andy Serkis