When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.