Grow up and you turn into burglars and get shot, or worse, they make you wear a coat and tie and stash you in the First National Bank behind brass bars! We gotta stand still! Stay the age we are. Grow...
Enemies come, too, from opinions and thoughts. In five seconds you’ve made an enemy for life. Life’s so short enemies must be made quickly.
Elle avait un visage menu, d’un blanc laiteux, et il s’en dégageait une espèce d’avidité sereine, d’inlassable curiosité pour tout ce qui l’entourait. Son expression suggérait une vague surprise ; ses...
Douglas opened one eye. And everything, absolutely everything, was there. The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everythin...
Don’t tell me what I’m doing, I don’t want to know.
Don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?He laughed. That's against the law!Oh. Of course.
Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information.
Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it. Someone’s written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people...
Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what the books have to say, how th...
At least you were a fool about the right things, said Faber.
After all, once a time was over, it was done. You were always in the present. //Pictures? No, they lie. You’re not the picture. My dear, you’re not the dates, or the ink, or the paper. You’re not thes...
Bums on the outside, libraries inside.
Jump and let's build our wings on the way down
I have been the patient one. I have waited for the world to stop being silly. I have waited for it to stop wars. I have waited for politicians to be honest. I have waited for real estate men to be goo...
When a man talks from the heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.
I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good. But I don't want to set out to influence people. I don't want to set out to change the wo...
We are anthill men upon an anthill world.
ذا كانت الحكومة فاشلة، على وشك الانهيار ، تفرض ضرائب بجنون فليكن ! فذلك أفضل بكثير من أن ينشغل بها الناس . فليفرح الناس بالمكسب فى المسابقات التى تتطلب أن يعرفوا كلمات الأغانى المشهورة أو أسماء العواص...
О, какво незабравимо блаженство — да лежиш в такава нощ сред уханието на папрат и треви, в нощта на шепнещите сънливи гласове, които правеха този мрак още по-сънлив. Възрастните бяха забравили, че той...