Ray Bradbury

"My feet,' said Montag. 'I can't move them. I feel so damn silly. My feet won't."

"The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas."

"We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom."

"That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you."

"I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies."

"Somewhere on the Earth tonight, my Tylla, there is a Man with a Lever, which, when he pulls it, Will Save The World. The man is now unemployed. His switch gathers dust. He himself plays pinochle."

"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."

"Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone ? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"