In an age that valued prolonged and detailed exposition, complexity, and repetition it was astonishing that Luther should have instinctively discerned the value of brevity.

A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument

The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.

It is often the parishioners, the men and women in the pews, who set the tone.

Because there was no pre-existing patrician elite, those successful in the new book industry could write very swiftly to the top of the social hierarchy.

Print, it transpired, was not just an instrument of agitation and change: now it was equally necessary to win the peace.

His plain, undecorated, and utilitarian work reeked week of provincialism.

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

My mom is a wonderful woman. She's always been an inspiration to me, but having kids helped me make even more sense of my relationship with her.

If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see.

I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects.

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

Life would be dull without them.

O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.