I shall remain on Mars and read a book.

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.