Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is a maker of pencils! What a sly thing my subconscious was, to name them thus. And not tell me!

Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

Those who don't build must burn.

Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.