Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.