I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. B….

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you..

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and mi….

Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to….

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years..

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life..

Everything that happens before Death is what counts..

Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid..

I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to h….

There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundr….

We are anthill men upon an anthill world..

They are so confident that they will run on forever. But they won't run on. They don't know that this is all one huge big blazing meteor that makes a….

We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars ….

People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them ….

A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it..

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder..

What are you up to now?" "I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it..

Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs co….

"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know.".

I never went to college, so I went to the library..

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us..