This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.

A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.

"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."

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

Not to write, for many of us, is to die.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.