I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.

For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there ARE. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?

Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.

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

We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God....We're here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.