Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
— Ray Bradbury
Famous Quotes
There they go, off to Venus, just for the ride, thinking that they will find a planet like a seer's crystal, in which to read a miraculous future. What they'll find, instead, is the somewhat shopworn image of themselves. Mars is a mirror, not a crystal.
The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.
Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.
Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.
He knew that most machines are amoral, neither bad nor good. But by the way you built and shaped them you in turn shaped men, women, and children to be bad or good. A car, for instance, dead brute, unthinking, an unprogrammed bulk, is the greatest destroyer of souls in history. It makes boy-men greedy for power, destruction, and more destruction. It was never intended to do that. But that's how it turned out.
All flesh is one: what matter scores; When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green…
Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.
All silence is. The dawn.