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

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.

I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And this other fellow is Charles Darwin, and-this one is Schopenhauer, and this one is Einstein, and this one here at my elbow is Mr. Albert Schweitzer, a very kind philosopher indeed. Here we all are, Montag. Aristophanes and Mahatma Gandhi and Gautama Buddha and Confucius and Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Lincoln, if you please. We are also Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.