Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

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!

I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.