The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
The ideas will follow me. When they're off-guard, and ready to be born, I'll turn around and grab them.
The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool.
The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can...
The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you can put up with him,...
That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain. . . .
Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.
Stuff your eyes with wonders [...]live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.
Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way?
Sometimes I am stunned at my capacity as a nine-year-old, to understand my entrapment and escape it... Where did I find the courage to rebel, to change my life, live alone? I don't want to over-estima...
Since our tongues first moved in our mouths we’ve asked, What does it all mean? No other question made sense, with death breathing down our necks. But just let us settle in on ten thousand worlds spin...
Si vous cachez votre ignorance, vous ne recevrez pas de coups et vous n'apprendrez rien.
She didn’t watch the dead, ancient bone-chess cities slide under, or the old canals filled with emptiness and dreams. Past dry rivers and dry lakes they flew, like a shadow of the moon, like a torch b...
Shared and once again shared experience. Billions of prickling textures. Cut one sense away, cut part of life away. Cut two senses; life halves itself on the instant. We love what we know, we love wha...
See, boys? Moundshroud’s face flickered with the fire. The days of the Long Cold are done. Because of this one brave, new-thinking man, summer lives in the winter cave. But? said Tom. What’s that got...
See the world: It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
See the fish...Just like war. War swims along, sees food, contracts. A moment later - Earth is gone.
Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.
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.
Quisiera recordar - dijo Ylla rompiendo el silencio y mirando a lo lejos, más allá de la figura de su marido, frío, erguido, de mirada amarilla. - ¿Qué quisieras recordar? - preguntó el señor K bebien...