From The October Game By Ray Bradbury

"And if you look" -- she nodded at the sky -- "there's a man in the moon." He hadn't looked for a long time.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me."

Ray Bradbury

“And a last thought from Tom: O Mr. Moundshroud, will we EVER stop being afraid of nights and death? And the thought returned: When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.”

― Ray Bradbury, quote from The Halloween Tree

Sunsets are loved because they vanish.

-- Ray Bradbury

(Cluj, Romania)

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“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”

― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing

There I strolled, lost in love, down the corridors, and through the stacks, touching books, pulling volumes out, turning pages, thrusting volumes back, drowning in all the good stuffs that are the essence of libraries. What a place, don’t you agree, to write a novel about burning books in the Future! —Ray Bradbury/Zen in the Art of Writing

The Martian Chronicles - art by Ian Miller (1979)

I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via quotespile)

*Originally published under the title "The World the Children Made"

An illustration sketch for chapter one of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.

I'd say there's more to come as I dog-eared a bunch of scenes I'd love to draw, but I had to return the book to my brother-in-law.