Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists - adults, all - have a hard enough time trying to figure out where to look. It doesn't have to be that way. The greatest solutions in society are reached by corporate thinking, ruled by a motive to either make a profit or go out of business.

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow

"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."

A day without writing was a little death.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!