"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

"I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em. I ate 'em. And then...and then..." The Fire Chief's voice fades. Montag Prompts: "And then?" "Why, life happened to me." The Fire Chief shuts his eyes to remember."
— Ray Bradbury

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

"Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go."
— Ray Bradbury