I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if... - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person..."

"I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?"

"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."

"Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!"

"Why is it,"he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?""Because I like you,"she said, "and I don't want anything from you."