For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there ARE. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

"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."

My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.