For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there ARE. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?
Ray BradburyYou canโt learn to write in college. Itโs a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you doโand they donโt. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you donโt want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, whoโs the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work theyโve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I canโt understand why people read them and why they are taught.
Ray BradburyToo many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they-ve seen.
Ray BradburyHe lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.
Ray Bradbury