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If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.

I've burned the trash a few times and it got away from me. I've caught the yard on fire. I've burnt up some acreage and had to call the fire department a couple of times.

One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

I once lived in a cottage made entirely of wood, and there was an electrical fire. We all ran outside, and no one got hurt, but the house was demolished.

How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah, not a very normal thing to do.