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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and a...more

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The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

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Insane people give me hope.""What!!!!" I almost dropped my beer."The insane have decided to stay on," Crumley said. "They love life so much that, rath...more

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It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Some...more

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You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!

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Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery, s...more

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Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid.

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I was a crazy creature with a head full of carnival spangles until I was thirty, and then the only man I ever really cared for stopped waiting and mar...more

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Don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heade...more

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I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

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But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very we...more

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And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right.

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Or we'll go that way. Or we'll walk on the highways now, and we'll have time to putthings into ourselves. And some day, after it sets in us a long tim...more

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My feet," said Montag. "I can't move them. I feel so damn silly. My feet won't

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Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man ...more