In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

The older I get, and the more I travel in particular, the less I care about what exactly is in the dish than who's cooking it and why.

Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.

Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.

I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it

If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.

I try and avoid thinking of strategy and I tend to stick to my gun of doing things that I like and try to avoid things that I "should" be doing, and stay true to that.

When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.