There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

After my mom died there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing her real intellectual curiosity.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine never seen an operation.

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Of all that is written I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

I have written about the dispossessed immigrants the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

Travel provided many interesting experiences but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

Now for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate which is really for all that's written about the Senate an unknowing world and its mores and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.

I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.

I had learning disabilities and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word which I think is still the most important thing.

'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance ' on the other hand was written and recorded in only four months so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

It is difficult if not impossible to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.