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"I did mostly good things, except light things on fire."
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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"

"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."

"What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will."

"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."

"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."
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"We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river."
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"We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast."

"Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul."

"My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong."

"I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down."

"I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80."

"The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again."

"Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad."
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