“Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.”
“There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes.”
“The conscientious arsonist doesn't just set the building on fire; first he fills the fire extinguishers with petrol.”
“If forced to choose, Giacometti once said, he would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Rembrandt.”
“I didn't set fire to the building.""No, but you did pull it into the river.""That put the fire out!”
“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”