The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

A library is all the university you will ever need.

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)

Those women like to see their tongues dance.