It Was September. In The Last Days When Things Are Getting Sad For No Reason.

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.

—Ray Bradbury

“A witch is born out of the true hungers of her time.”

— Ray Bradbury, Long After Midnight, 1976

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”

— Ray Bradbury

"Science fiction is the art of the possible."

—Ray Bradbury, born on this day in 1920

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

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury, 1972

Some people turn sad awfully young ... No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer, and ... get sadder younger than anyone else in the world.

– Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“It’s a long way back to sunset, a far way on to dawn, so you summon all the fool things of your life, the stupid lovely things done with people known so very well who are now so very dead...”

Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury

“If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go in business because we’d be cynical: “It’s gonna go wrong.” Or “She’s going to hurt me.” Or, “I’ve had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore …” Well, that’s nonsense. You’re going to miss life. You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.”

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Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) American writer, futurist, fabulist