The Illustrated Man Quotes

“I shall remain on Mars and read a book.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

“The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains.”
― Ray Bradbury

“It wasn't going places. It was being between...Mostly it was space. So much space. I liked the idea of nothing on top, nothing on the bottom, and a lot of nothing in between, and me in the middle of the nothing.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Oh, death in space was most humorous.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

“And he listened to me. That was the thing he did, as if he was trying to fill himself up with all the sound he could hear.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

“When he went off into space ten years ago, I said to myself, 'He's dead.' Or as good as dead. So think of him dead. And when he comes back, three or four times a year, it's not him at all, it's only a pleasant little memory or a dream. And if a memory stops or a dream stops, it can't hurt half as much. So most of the time I think of him dead--”
― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man