For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothin... - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away."

"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."

"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."

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

"It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away."