Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The m… - Ray Bradbury

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Kid, don’t tell us what we should be when you don’t even know what we are.

"The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day."
"Good."
"They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?"

I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.