It’s a great place to grow up [Los Angeles] as a creator because there’s no intellectual hierarchy. I remember going to a party in New York about 35 years ago. They all called me Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. I said, “You, ma’am, your name and phone number? And you, sir, your phone number? And you, sir?” And they said, “Why are you taking our phone numbers?” I said, “Because the night we land on the moon, you’re going to get called.” I was in London when we did. I called three of them, and when they answered I said, “Stupid son of a bitch,” and hung up.

Ray Bradbury, Newsweek, November 1998 (via bombsforbreakfast « Jesse Lanser)

“Dandelion Wine” has been, and will continue to be, the book with the single biggest influence on my writing, and on my life.

(Source: theatlantic)

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