“Logic kills. Faith burns. Better to be the one with the torch than the one on the pyre.”

“Why? Why do the fools fly?' said Denethor. 'Better to burn sooner than late, for burn we must. Go back to your bonfire! And I? I will go now to my pyre. To my pyre! No tomb for Denethor and Faramir. No tomb! No long slow sleep of death embalmed. We will burn like heathen kings before ever a ship sailed hither from the West. The West has failed. Go back and burn!”

“Elyograg-He struggled once more to break free, but it was no use. He was tied to the pyre; a torch set the mound ablaze. He closed his eyes and prepared to feel the burn engulfing him, his short life flashing by. But instead of feeling the burning heat of the fire, he felt a cold spread against him from the outside in, turning his human remains not to ash, but to stone.”

“Better to go out to see the world one time with his own eyes, than to be burned alive with the plastic curtains.”

“Better to be without logic than without feeling.”

“St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry.”