American - Author | August 2, 1947 -
When I was working on the al-Zawahiri piece, a large part of it published in 'The New Yorker' in 2002, I had spoken to a lot of Zawahiri's friends, people who had been in prison with him, people that had been in al-Jihad with him. And quite to my surprise, they liked that article a lot.
Lawrence Wright
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Contempt for men pervades the most obscure strata of our society.
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I've always worried that one day women would figure out how to get along without us and they would be able to reproduce unilaterally, like sponges.
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I'm grateful for the ascendancy of women in business and politics, which may yet advance the humanity of those callings.
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Dallas was a place where dreamers like my father were given a chance.
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To an outsider, Abilene was like a small landfall in the Sargasso Sea - remote, laconic, and forever closed to strangers.
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Dallas was not a caring city, but it was efficient.
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When I was in the ninth grade, I had a teacher in Dallas, Texas, named Elizabeth Enlow in English class. Every Friday, we had to write a little essay, and you had to incorporate three particular words into the story. That was the sole direction. And to me, this was so much fun.
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The lovely thing about the writing life is that you can point it in any direction.
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Scientology is not a terrorist organization. Scientology has used intimidating tactics and vindictive litigation.
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The ideal 'New Yorker' profile is a person, an interesting person, at a critical point in his life.
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Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create.
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