"Some People Turn Sad Awfully Young. No Special Reason, It Seems, But They Seem Almost To Be Born That

"But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up under them."

- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

"To think that thought could live that long! A million years, perhaps, all these thoughts of death and disorder and conquest, lingering in the innocent but poisonous air of the planet, waiting for a real man to give them a channel through which they might issue again in all their senseless virulence."

Asleep in Armageddon, Ray Bradbury

There I strolled, lost in love, down the corridors, and through the stacks, touching books, pulling volumes out, turning pages, thrusting volumes back, drowning in all the good stuffs that are the essence of libraries. What a place, don’t you agree, to write a novel about burning books in the Future! —Ray Bradbury/Zen in the Art of Writing

Ray Bradbury - The Hound (Joseph Mugnaini)

"That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and mid-nights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts."  -Ray Bradbury, "The October Country"

“But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them.”

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"Can you oppose the forces that see that people die just when they are supposed to die - not too soon, not too late?"

Fred Humiston (1902-1976) - Illustration for Ray Bradbury's 'The Scythe'

(Weird Tales - July 1943)

From The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury’s 1949 sci-fi classic.

"And if you look" -- she nodded at the sky -- "there's a man in the moon." He hadn't looked for a long time.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451