A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.

I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."