Ray Bradbury

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your wits. Speed is everything. The 90-mph dash to your machine is a sure cure for life rampant and death most real. Make haste to live. Oh, God, yes. Live. And write. With great haste.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.