"I yield to no one in my respect for Ray Bradbury."

- Rod Serling

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Originally posted by Doug Spaulding:
"I yield to no one in my respect for Ray Bradbury."

- Rod Serling

I wonder: did he say that before or after The Twilight Zone?

After.

Early seventies.

"Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."

- Woody Allen

"The only happiness you get to keep,
Is the happiness you give away"

~Roy Rogers

Actress Joan Crawford's alleged last words on her deathbed while a maid was praying:

"Damn It! Don't you dare ask God to help me."

"If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake.”

- Groucho Marx (in L.A.)

"I think they do more damage to Christianity than the most committed atheist."

- Antony Thomas (on televangelist faith healers)

"Jesus was a good guy. He didn't need this shit."

- John Prine

"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative."

- Kurt Vonnegut


"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

- Arthur C. Clarke

You can always tell a cult from a religion, she said, because a cult is just a set of rules that lets certain men get laid.

-”Always” by Karen Joy Fowler 2007

.... to every drunken man the fall of the sober is a happy thing.

-Michael Shaara, “Soldier Boy”1982

"I cannot bear to see my wonderful husband waken every day wondering if he is living a nightmare.

He is my life and there is no cure (from ALS). There is nothing I can do to help him. We have a limited number of days left together and these days for him will be filled with suffering."

- ravenscroft's wife 31 May 2008

" Don't make yourself crazy! "

~Nard Kordell

Twofer:

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
- Charles de Montesquieu

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen

Another twofer, both from science fiction, unless this longtime famous science fiction author is too strong for delicate sensibilities:

As far as the eye can see, the infertile desert lies under the pitiless glare of the merciless sun, a lifeless, trackless, feckless, fuckless waste strewn with the bones of luckless wayfarers....
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin

"You should get used to the idea that not everybody thinks exactly the way you do. From time to time, you might even try rethinking a position.”

- There and Then by Steven Utley