Fahrenheit 451

"We are a dying people"

"Nobody listens any more. I just want someone to hear what I have to say"

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

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

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

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

"There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house"

"You're a fireman for a long time; you smell of kerosene."

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

"Burning is fun."

"When you take a man's life through knowledge, he's no longer his real self any more."

"I've got all the little seashells in my ears, always humming."

"We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy."

"One day you'll understand why."

"I'm tired of my life."

"The television is real. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tell you what to think and blasts it in."

"I never realized what terrible power we had."

"We need to be angry."

"My wife says books make you unhappy."

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

"The happiness is somewhere else."

"You could shut up though."

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

"We are supposed to be happy."

"I don't talk things. I talk the meaning of things."

"The most important thing is the person sitting next to you."

"But you can't prove it's a democracy when it's one party."

"I'm afraid of myself."

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

"I just want someone to hear what I have to say."