It was pretty silly quoting poetry around free and easy like that. It was the act of a silly damn snob. Give man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation. You think you can walk on water with all your books. Well, the world can get by just fine without them.
Weitere Zitate von Ray Bradbury
Zum Autor"Without the library, you have no civilization."
"The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas."
"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."
"My feet,' said Montag. 'I can't move them. I feel so damn silly. My feet won't."
"We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom."
"Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about."