"Jump and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall."

I first read Ray Bradbury when I was young and sad. His books and stories made me believe in wonder when I doubted such a thing existed and over the years, without fail, he has been a storyteller I have returned to in good times and bad. A lot of people who knew him have written some wonderfully eloquent things in the past 24 hours and I have enjoyed reading so many of those remembrances. For me, all I can say is that there was more than one day when Ray Bradbury saved my heart. It beats today for Greentown, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, the Foghorn, the Lake, "R is for Rocket", butterflies and dinosaurs, the sounds of Mexico over a phone, the Banshee and on and on and on.

My heart beats, and it remembers him.