“When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.”
“The human imagination is often disastrous when left to its own devices.”
“Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches.”
“Good,” he said softly. “Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches.”
“One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.”
“Yet in my experience, when left to their own devices people will get up to one of two things: nothing much, and no good.”