Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires….

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in..

I tried to breathe, failing. I clutched her to me, tears slipping from under my closed eyes. It was as if her soul was liquid fire and I could feel h….

When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not..

I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books….

Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making….

...."the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a distant piano over and ov….

I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in an engagement, he imme….

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye..

Flame is very near to smoke..

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power..

Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden..

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water..

My whole goal is just to keep myself motivated. If I'm motivated, if I'm on fire, it's going to catch with somebody else..

Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth..

Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes..

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames..

when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of wor….

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he ….

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes..

Try not to wake up on fire..