Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.

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

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

If you love people you criticize them, and if you don't love them you don't criticize them, you let them go to hell, don't you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.

There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.

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