The Power of Cautionary Questions: Neil Gaiman on Ray Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ Why We Read, and How Speculative Storytelling Enlarges Our Humanity – Brain Pickings

"Ideas, written ideas, are special. They are the way we transmit our stories ... from one generation to the next. If we lose them, we lose our shared history. We lose much of what makes us human."

The Power of Cautionary Questions: Neil Gaiman on Ray Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ Why We Read, and How Speculative Storytelling Enlarges Our Humanity – Brain Pickings

"Ideas, written ideas, are special. They are the way we transmit our stories ... from one generation to the next. If we lose them, we lose our shared history. We lose much of what makes us human."