"Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, "live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid fo… - Ray Bradbury

"Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.
And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping it's life away.
To hell with that," he said, "shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass."

“You really talk,” he said.
“Compulsive,” I said.”
“You’d make a lousy writer,” he said. “I never knew a writer yet who was a good talker.”

Creativity is a continual surprise.

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.