“A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!”

“I should get rid of those boxes, full of all that junk. Burn them all – make a bonfire in the garden and burn the bloody lot of it. All the captured bits of me, the scraps and pictures and notes and letters, burn it all, burn the lot of it – every last trace of me. Every last bit of me – up in flames and gone for good. Forgotten and gone. Rid me of these memories... Yes, that’s something to do this afternoon. Get out into the garden, and burn the past... To ashes with.”

“If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.”

“Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb.”

“Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.”

“Not the intense momentIsolated, with no before and after,But a lifetime burning in every moment.”