1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" No. Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it." Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.

Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.

Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.

The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.

And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.

I got started as an actor when I was 12.

Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that.