Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more..

I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, i….

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?.

Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance..

Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make u….

There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science be….

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds..

The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these p….

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about..

Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?.

I believe in Darwin and God together..

Stuff your eyes with wonder..

[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for echoes. H….

I don't know anything anymore.

Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me..

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost..

If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin..

Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently..

How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?.

A book is a loaded gun..

If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills.….