“I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.”

“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”

“I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And this other fellow is Charles Darwin, and-this one is Schopenhauer, and this one is Einstein, and this one here at my elbow is Mr. Albert Schweitzer, a very kind philosopher indeed. Here we all are, Montag. Aristophanes and Mahatma Gandhi and Gautama Buddha and Confucius and Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Lincoln, if you please. We are also Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.”

“I needed a large glass of chardonnay and a larger dose of Cary Grant.”

“Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant," Grant is said to have replied, "So would I.”

“In reference to Einstein's definition of insanity...No Mr. Einstein, that is not insanity, that is autism.”