199 quotes
Anna said, “Must they have a reason?”
“No, not if they’re insane, no,” said Juliet. “In that case no reasons are necessary.”
The October Country (1955)
Kid, don’t tell us what we should be when you don’t even know what we are.
Long After Midnight (1976)
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.
The Martian Chronicles (1950)
I have hit forty, forty has hit me, like a locomotive.
I Sing the Body Electric! (1969)
We fired our laughs like cannons at its heart!
Whole town out there is up to their earholes in watchsprings, no hands on the clocks, afraid to get up every morning and find it’s always always and forever Sunday!
The Toynbee Convector (1988)
“Ain’t there a real fine smell?” said the taxi driver. “Just delivered five dozen loaves!”
“That,” said the young man, “is the perfume of Eden on the first morn.”
Now and Forever (2007)
Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
“Recant!” Create a voice “confess and recant! Recant!”
“There is nothing to confess, therefore no need for recantation,” said the old man quietly.
Long After Midnight (1976)
Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.
When, trussed and bound and nailed,
You sacrifice your life, your liberty
You hang yourself upon the tenterhook.
Pull free!
Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.
The Martian Chronicles (1950)
“Off the mount, Nolan,” said the priest, “and enough of the sermon. What’s your point?”
I Sing the Body Electric! (1969)
There’s too much chance for shock. And yet I must tell her the truth. A doctor gets nowhere by lying to his patient.
I Sing the Body Electric! (1969)
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door.
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Next year’s going to be even bigger, days will be brighter, nights longer and darker, more people dying, more babies born, and me in the middle of it all.
Dandelion Wine (1957)
But all the little inside-people sitting around in her head would rock back in their tiny rockers and cackle and say, “You ain’t foolin’ us none, Grandma.”
I Sing the Body Electric! (1969)