Article: Random thoughts from Ray Bradbury.

Byline: Bill Hirschman

On Shakespeare: "`Hamlet' is really the great one because it starts in a grave and ends in a grave. It's completely death-oriented and yet you come out happy. And at the end they're all lying around and you only have enough people to pick up the bodies, that's all."

On today's science-fiction writers: "I don't read in my field (anymore). ... There's so many novels coming out these days. It's different from when I was kid. But there are 300 new novels coming out every year now, 300 new authors, so you can't catch up."

On who he does read today: "George Bernard Shaw, Alexander Pope, Warren Eisley. I've been going back ...

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