"I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury
I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!" "And it's kind of sad," said Tom, sitting still."There's nothing we can do to help them.
More by Ray Bradbury
“Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.”
“There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.”
“...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.”
More on Age
“In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.”
“While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.”
“I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.”