For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.

The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.

All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.

The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.

It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.

The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.

The vision is always for the appointed time.

The dominoes of fate are falling down as we are speaking, and Ferriar knows what will happen when the last one crashes down.

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.

May summer last a hundred years.

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.

I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.

When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days - who are so thin it's bordering on sickness - I just feel exhausted.

I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, "It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do."