Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there’ll be no “charge” left. You can’t father children that way.
I’m not a science-fiction writer. I’ve only written one book that’s science fiction, and that’s Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.
There’s no reason to burn books if you don’t read them.
I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good.
Love is easy, and I love writing.
A library is all the university you will ever need.
Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.
That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.
I’m not a serious person, and I don’t like serious people.
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.
I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.
Action is hope. There is no hope without action.
The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It’s the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.
I believe in creative failing – to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you’ve got a thousand poems behind you and you’re relaxed and you finally write a good poem.
The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.
For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn’t show through the mist until noon.
Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy.
Heaven is a house with porch lights.
What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?