“He'd burn the whole world down til he could dig out you of the ashes.”

“There is no keeping down of veritie, but it wil spring and come out of dust and ashes, as appeared right well in this man. For though they digged vp his body, burnt his bones, & drowned his ashes, yet þe word of God and truth of his doctrine with the fruit & successe therof they could not burne.”

“He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.”

“Ain't going down 'til the sun comes up;
Ain't givin' in 'til they get enough.
Going 'round the world in a pickup truck,
Ain't goin' down 'til the sun comes up.”

“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”

“Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.”

“I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.”

“He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.”

“All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.”

“And someone will head south 'til this whole thing cools off.”