The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.
“I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.”
“I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.”