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

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.