To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over mens souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means. – Emanuel Swedenborg
I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I dont even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning. – Alice Cooper
A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did. – George Saunders
Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain dont care attitude about clothes. You dont care, you just do it and it looks great. – Vivienne Westwood
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold nights arms. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca