Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, ….

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right..

I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not ha….

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out..

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas..

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future..

You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love..

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange..

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone….

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything..

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them..

I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!.

And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there..

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down..

There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I w….

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things..

A library is all the university you will ever need..

What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?.

I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy..

Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that..

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work..