It was a secular cathedral dedicated to the rites of travel.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere travels on the ground sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it and has a hard time and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

In course of time religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often cry down works and men's own righteousness and.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

The moving finger writes and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit can cancel half a line of it.

I really don't have favorites I'm just a fan of movies period.

I eat as much as the next girl but I work my butt of in the gym every morning! The key is moderation. I splurge on the weekend. A big bowl of pasta and a delicious slice of cake for dessert are my favorites.

In the name of Hypocrites doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid anything you see in your formative years is more powerful because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge and if he's good the older he gets the better he writes.

For someone who writes fiction in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious it's essential to be free.

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage I think that lead us from an innocent world of contentment drunkenness and good humor to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.