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

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.

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.

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.

Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…

Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.

We can hear God better, when we shut up faster.

I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

If love were endless, if it were on tap, it wouldn't hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn't write about it.

I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.'

People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.

If I can be cruel; I'm not a big fan of the Audi R8, actually.

I will sign every contract Arsenal put in front of me without reading it.