
Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new.
Ray Bradbury • Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don’t even have a program or know the names?
Ray Bradbury • Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.
Ray Bradbury • Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
“Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.”
Ray Bradbury • Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
It was a flaking three-story house in the ancient part of the city, a century old if it was a day, but like all houses it had been given a thin fireproof plastic sheath many years ago, and this preservative shell seemed to be the only thing holding it in the sky.
Ray Bradbury • Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
But that’s the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing.”
Ray Bradbury • Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The differenc
... See moreRay Bradbury • Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
What speculative fiction is really good at is not the future but the present—taking an aspect of it that troubles or is dangerous, and extending and extrapolating that aspect into something that allows the people of that time to see what they are doing from a different angle and from a different place. It’s cautionary.
Ray Bradbury • Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
“ ‘Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.’ ”