But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority

I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.

I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.

Write. Don't think. Relax.

Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.

I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.