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!

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.

I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.