Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides a... - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
"Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones."
More quotes by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
"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."
"The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us."
"Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
"Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!"
"The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school."