"I am madness maddened when it comes..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury

“Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.”

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.”

“First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.”

“A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.”

“The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.”

“Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.”

“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.”

“The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.”

“Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.”