"Kerosene," he said, because the silence had..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury

“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”

“See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.”

“They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.”

“Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.”

“This great purple butterfly,In the prison of my hands,Has a learning in his eyeNot a poor fool understands.”

“Half of the people in the world are below average.”

“O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.”

“This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.”

“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”