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The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband's family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

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

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.

The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me.

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.