Fahrenheit 451

"We never ask questions anymore."

"I feel hollow."

"Montag, you are looking at a coward."

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

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

"I'm not thinking. I'm watching the snow fall."

"You're a hopeless romantic."

"I just had a terrible thought. What if it's true?"

"You haven't read any books in years."

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

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

"There is more than one way to burn a book."

"People are having fun."

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

"You're looking at a man who's frightened of his own shadow, who couldn't imagine his wife siding with him."

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

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

"It was a pleasure to burn."

"If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one."

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

"It's too late for that."

"Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading."

"To everything there is a season."

"The role of a citizen and the inner stand of a book, invisible."

"There is no longer any need for firemen at all."

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

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies."

"I need you to help me understand what I've read."

"Montag, what is it you do exactly?"

"That's the real beauty of it - none of them knows anything anymore."