Well, within a phrase. And with a series of phrases, you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question.

I played piano. I've always liked piano. My father played piano. Actually, to be fair, the sound of the harpsichord did annoy him a bit, and I thought, how can I annoy Dad? I'll play the harpsichord.

And it totally has transformed my relationship with someone like, say, Bach. You know, Bach is born 330 years ago but, you know, gosh, he really is alive.

The harpsichord was actually ideologically considered a very questionable instrument in that period, much like I think it's ideologically considered suspect today in some circles.

Well, harpsichord is kind of a big guitar, isn't it? I mean, it is plucked, after all.

Every greed is the root of un-gratefulness.

I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.

Wars may be fought with weapons but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

There is no ship now that can bear me hence

When you open box after box of old comics and they're ALL "Archie," you have suffered a trauma from which it is difficult to ever recover.

I'm just glad that I have this huge fan.

Also ... the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do.

Most of all, I believe God has chosen to bless this series. In doing so, he's giving the country and maybe the world, one last, big wake-up call before the events transpire.