The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.

The last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed.

The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing.

No serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.

Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the language which is familiar to us in the Authorised Version.

It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.

They told me it was impossible so I tried and failed. Then I tried again and again until I made it possible.

I'm most excited to meet Jon Hamm at the Emmys.

I am just one human being.

Wiser, never wise. Smarter, never smart.

If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.

We are smart and powerful enough to change our world as we need.