I imagine that one of the first forms of behavior, like one of the first signals, may be reduced to this: “Keep me warm.”

If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

At the start there’s always energy.

There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.

Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

What is life but organized energy?

The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

The brightest light burns the quickest.

Fire destroys that which feeds it.