Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense."

"The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school."

"The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us."

"Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."

"Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore."

"There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing."

"I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense."

"Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless."