Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. – Walter Benjamin
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. – Walter Benjamin
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. – Walter Benjamin
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. – Walter Benjamin
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you dont know how to read, you dont know how to decide. Thats the great thing about our country – were a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. – Ray Bradbury