The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.
You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
Surprise is where creativity comes in.
Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.
"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."
He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.