“He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.”

“He'd burn the whole world down til he could dig out you of the ashes.”

“I want to burn the world because Alan is gone," he said. "I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you in it.”

“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”

“If the monkey really wanted to get the weasel, he would’ve stopped wasting time and burned down the mulberry bush.”

“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.”