Ray Bradbury: "That's the wonderful thing about man..."

"That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing."

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury: 3 Necessities

"Where do we go from here? Would books help us?"

"Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two."

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury: "We are living..."

"We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam."

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury: "The good writers..."

"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rap her and leave her for the flies."

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury: "We have everything..."

"We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing... It would be funny if it were not serious."

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury: "We need not to be..."

"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, something real?"

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Aldo Leopold: "The first rule of..."

"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces."

- Aldo Leopold

Goethe: "Treat people as if..."

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be
and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

- Goethe

Tom Stoppard: "Happiness is equilibrium..."

"Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight."

- Tom Stoppard from his play The Real Thing (advice from a father to his daughter)

Michael Sokolove: "Volpe always tells the kids..."

"Volpe always tells the kids 'it's theater,' meaning something will always happen you don't expect. Lines missed, props missing, a costume change not made. It's part of being an actor. You don't panic; you just find your way back."

-Michael Sokolove, Drama High

Lou Volpe: "I think some of these..."

"I think some of these other schools, they're wealthier, and the families have more sophistication, but they really value their comfort. They're almost too comfortable. They want that feeling of security and don't want anything to rock the boat. A show like Rent raises questions about the world we live in, and they're not interested in that."

-Lou Volpe, from Michael Sokolove's Drama High

Michael Sokolove: "No one would tolerate..."

"No one would tolerate a science curriculum that glossed over the discovery of DNA, or even a high school football team that ran the old sing-wing offense and never threw a forward pass. But high school theater programs that draw material mostly from bygone eras are regarded as somehow quaint."

-Michael Sokolove, Drama High