You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear bo….

You learn to live with your crazy enthusiasms which nobody else shares, and then you find a few other nuts like yourself, and they're your friends fo….

All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or los….

Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and th….

The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your ….

I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should ….

Hello!" He said hello and then said, "What are you up to now?" "I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. "I don't think I'd like t….

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important..

The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13..

I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them..

Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say thi….

Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean..

Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very mome….

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive..

Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited ….

(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you ….

A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the comp….

The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything t….

Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow fa….

I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't ….

Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quick….