The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.