The entire history of mankind is problem solving, or science fiction swallowing ideas, digesting them, and excreting formulas for survival. You can't have one without the other. No fantasy, no reality...
She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why.
No, moaned Tom in despair. School. School straight on ahead! Why, why do dime stores show things like that in windows before summer’s even over! Ruin half the vacation!
Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to thègui...
Look at this mess! And where’s the mop?
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...
It was like a great bee come home from some field where the honey is full of poison wildness, of insanity and nightmare, its body crammed with that over-rich nectar and now it was sleeping the evil ou...
It was September.
I take this continent with me into the grave.
How's Uncle Louis today? Who? And Aunt Maude?
He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found...
Don't they get afraid, then?They have a religion for that.
We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
The mosquitos were gone from the porch, and surely when they abandoned the conflict the war with Time was really done, there was nothing for it but that humans also forsake the battleground.
The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.
It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious.
From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitt...
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.