Like every kid, I was forced to read Fahrenheit 451 in high school.

My time of reckoning came when I needed to fix insomnia, and non-fiction business books before bed just compounded the problem. I began reading fiction to “turn off” and instead saw breakthroughs in creativity and quality of life as a side-effect.

If there was one quality Bradbury prized above all others in a writer, it was gusto. And it was a quality that Bradbury had in spades.