Illustration Of The Long Rain By Ray Bradbury. Art By Cristina Bencina.

“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.

It was September. In the last days when things are getting sad for no reason.

—Ray Bradbury

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”

— Ray Bradbury

It's gone away, it's gone back to the Deeps. It's learned you cant love anything too much in this world.

ray bradbury, the fog horn

"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

The Last Night of the World

“Maybe because it was never October 19, 1969, ever before in history, and now it is and that’s it; because this date means more than any other date ever meant; because it’s the year when things are as they are all over the world and that’s why it’s the end.”

— Ray Bradbury

“I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we’re not perfect and live accordingly.”

— Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

“I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we’re not perfect and live accordingly.”

— Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man