Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that!

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

Every day is Christmas Day to a dog.