The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
The two most challenging tasks a man can face in life is education of the heart and education of the child-every other task he contemplates in life before him pales in comparison to those two. On this path of absolute uncertainty, the descending hear...
Cinema was my rite of passage.
It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
I'm not a lady, I'm a witch.
I prefer a story to a prayer.
I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.
Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.
Red sky at night, the city's alight.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an ocean in a drop.
Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.
To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.
Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.
He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the...
The assignment of meanings [in music] is a shifting, kaleidoscopic play, probably below the threshold of consciousness, certainly outside the pale of discursive thinking. The imagination that responds to music is personal and associative and logical,...
Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.
Religion is more than rite and ritual.
When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.
Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.
I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.
