Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 [ID In ALT]

“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 something important, about something real?”  - Ray Bradbury

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” - Ray Bradbury

The Bookworm, Carl Spitzweg, 1850.

June dawns, July noons, August evenings over, finished, done, and gone forever with only the sense of it all left here in his head. Now, a whole autumn, a white winter, a cool and greening spring to figure sums and totals of summer past.

Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

*Originally published under the title "The Naming of Names"

The Murderer

“Why didn't I start a solitary revolution, deliver man from certain 'conveniences'? 'Convenient for who?'”

— Ray Bradbury

The Martian Chronicles (USA/UK, 1980).

The Martian Chronicles - art by Ian Miller (1979)

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”

- Ray Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012)