Dear Mr Bradbury, I know people make sweeping non specific comments like "he changed my life" or "I was never the same" but I can honestly say that Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 did just that. Not only did I learn how to spell fahrenheit I learned that you can NEVER EVER hand over your freedom to think to ANYONE else. EVER. Using a women willing to burn herself with her books rather than leave without them, a man waking up Matrix style from a intelligence fugue and learning to trust enough in what he believed to possibly spend the rest of his life without his known comforts, a women betraying her husband and family to keep herself sane. You taught me that. The scary future of us. Not our government. I am devastated by your loss. Thank you for your words and your my thoughts.