My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I donโt schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.
Ray BradburyThe world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.
Ray BradburyBut we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. Theyโre Caesarโs praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, โRemember, Caesar, thou art mortal.โ Most of us canโt rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we havenโt time, money or that many friends. The things youโre looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.
Ray Bradbury