Sam Weller, who knows more about Ray Bradbury than any man alive, cites a seminal anecdote from Ray's life. This is one of the tales I got Ray to tell the first time I interviewed him in San Diego and it was a very memorable moment…for the audience and for me. It had a lot more power when you heard Ray tell it than it does in print, and I will long remember sitting there, hearing him speak of the moment when a man up on a stage changed his life by opening his imagination a few notches. And there's an audience of thousands, some of them surprisingly young, sitting there having their imaginations pried open a few notches by a man on stage named Ray Bradbury.