“We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire;
For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return”

“There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.”

“So on and on
we walked without thinking of rest
passing craters, passing fire,
under the rocking sky of '41
tottering crazy on its smoking columns.”

“Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It's not the tobacco we're after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.”

“There's no smoke without fire.”

“The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if, through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.”

“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”

“As a realist, I can argue that there is no fire without smoke and not the other way around.”

“When the burning coal stops emitting the smoke, then you will surely understand that the fire does not always need the presence of the smoke.”

“Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.”