Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.

Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

But we do need a breather. 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. They’re Caesar’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, ‘Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.’ Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that many friends. The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.