By deepening the spiritual dialogue between the spiritual traditions of the various religions in a spirit of friendship, one begins to understand just what the classical terms of the various spiritual traditions really mean.
Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.
Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.
The novel tradition is the closest thing I have to a religion, and being a part of that tradition means a lot to me. I don't really see - I never have seen - why I should have to forfeit that feeling, or hope, of belonging, just because the stories I want to tell are close to my own experience.
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.
One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!
Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?
In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you dont protect it, you lose it.
I do love the weird, and I realize that I write much in that tradition, so I'm happy to be counted in among some of my favorite authors.
Different cultural and geological references inspire the collection as seen in ancient tribes and tradition.
The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.