The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the p... - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"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."

"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."

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

"But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last."

"The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour."