The Fireman

Excerpt from a line by Guy Montag, the fireman in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, milled into the table in the library at Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art:

but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be 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?