Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.

Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.

I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

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 this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.

"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."