Professor Faber

"There is no terror, Montag, in the bang and the whimper. There is only the silence in between."

"We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers instead of growing them."

"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her."

"That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want."

"We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered?"

"Books say: she did this because. Television says: she did this. Millions of people watching, not doing."

"You're not like the others. I've seen a few in fifty years. Despair. I can see it in your eyes."

"We are the miracle of consciousness, we are the product of ages."

"It was not my books they were after, it was me."

"With school turning out more runners, jumpers, dancers, slaves and acrobats than ever before."

"We think we're just staying alive."

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

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies."

"We are all things to all men. Is that the answer?"

"To everything there is a season."

"Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality."

"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her."

"We are the miracle of consciousness, but we are also the victims of consciousness."

"Number one: Do they have quality? Number two: Do they have guts? Number three: Do they open up the world?"

"The book says, 'It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit.'"

"It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books."

"Montag, you are looking at a coward."

"The most important single thing we have to teach our children is that in every conceivable manner, the integrity of speech is absolute."

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies. A child or a book or a painting."

"There's no fear of the dark for people who read."

"We need to be angry."

"It all depends on what you mean by social to me."

"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while"

"There is no terror, Montag, in the bang and the whimper. There is only the silence"

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