If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
…and do you know what?What?People don’t talk about anything.
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
The girl? She was a time bomb.
THE ARMAGEDDON-2419 ISSUE
Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.
She lay awake for many hours into the night, among her trunks and trinkets. She glanced over at the neat stacks of materials and toys and opera plumes and said, aloud, Does it really belong to me? Or...
Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.
One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway...
Mistakes can be profited by.
I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
Even now he could feel the start of the long journey, the leave taking, the going away from the self he had been.
Death loves death, not life. Dying people love to know that others die with them; it is a comfort to learn you are not alone in the kiln, in the grave.
But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?
Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
Who wants to see the Future, who ever does? A man can face the Past, but to think - the pillars crumbled, you say? And the sea empty, and the canals dry, and the maidens dead, and the flowers withered...
I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.