What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.

Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.

A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.