..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

The things you're lookingfor, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap willever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

Tiene que haber algo en los libros, cosas que no podemos imaginar para hacer que una mujer permanezca en una casa que arde. Ahí tiene que haber algo. Uno no se sacrifica por nada”.

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.