Forrest J. Ackerman(1916-2008)

He put up a flyer in a Los Angeles bookstore, announcing a science-fiction club he was starting. A teenager named Ray Bradbury attended the club meetings. Later, Ackerman helped Bradbury start his own sci-fi magazine, "Futuria Fantasia". He also helped pay for a trip to New York that helped launch Bradbury's writing career.

My wife used to say, "How can you let strangers into our home?" But what's the point of having a collection like this if you can't let people enjoy it? (on giving tours of their mansion, in an interview with the Associated Press on his 85th birthday)