“Fire is not a thing. It is a situation of temperature.”
“The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire”
“Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.”
“It doesn’t matter what temperature a room is, it’s always room temperature.”
“But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.”
“[Y]ou’re someone who took up birds in the first place because they fired your imagination; they fascinated you because ‘they seemed of all created beings the nearest to pure spirit- those little creatures with a normal temperature of 125°.”