But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?

The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.

Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.