“Clyde: You're telling me. What about those first three nights, we had to light fires to keep the animals away.”

“There's a light
There's a fire shining
Day and night
It came burning through
Shine on me
Shine on down you keep me
High and dry
I'm in love with you”

Steve Forbert (1954) American singer-songwriter

“In response to a question about what "keeps her up at night", I worry about the fact that in K-12 education I can look at your zip code and tell whether or not you're going to get a good education.”

Condoleezza Rice (1954) American Republican politician; U.S. Secretary of State; political scientist

“Fragments of hope
keeping me up at night,
hunger to hear your voice
tell me I was right,
I'd give everything away
for another try.”

Marian Renta

“When you want the score
When you need a helping hand
And you find closed doors
And you're back where you began
Keeping those secrets
Telling those lies…
Can anybody tell me
What's the big surprise?”

Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist

“We go about in the night and are consumed by fire.”
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni

Guy Debord (1931–1994) French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding member of the Situationist International (SI)

“People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights.”

China Miéville book Railsea

“It is not light that burns, that purifies, that consumes, that divides, and that recomposes; it is fire. And this fire we are talking about always follows light.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued."
"If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.”

William Golding book Lord of the Flies

“Hey, you're gonna have to keep it simple for us folks! Keep the words simple so we can understand what you're talking about.”

Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist