You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?