"My personal telephone book is a book..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
More by Ray Bradbury
“Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?”
“Those women like to see their tongues dance.”
“Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.”
More on Aging
“I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.”
“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.”
“A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.”
More on Loss
“not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.”
“Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way.”
“If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.”