Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don’t; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”

The mind drinks less and less. Impatience.

I said nothing. I’m 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.

“Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile delinquents.”

All isn’t well with the world.”

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 well it is important and worth the doing.”