“Some people don’t have much to say, but you have to listen a long time to find out.”
“Unknown but well known” quoted in “Other Suspects – III Quotes not by GKC” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #4 (March/April 2025)
“Father once mused that his ecumenical motto would be ‘Come home to the Catholic Church! It’s terrible here.’”
Dale Ahlquist reviewing Father Joseph Fessio, S.J.: California Blackrobe by Cornelius Michael Buckley, S.J., in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)
“Man arrested, accused of trespassing naked in Disneyland”
Headline in San Bernardino Sun April 14, 2025 [which offers the comfort that someone’s always having a worse day than you are but also the caution that no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse.]
“But talk isn’t action; it’s just loud breathing.”
Editorial in Ottawa Citizen December 9, 1999 [if I wrote it I have since forgotten]
“She means well, but she doesn’t mean much.”
“CAN’T FIND WHO SAID IT FIRST” quoted in “Other Suspects – V” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)
“Never get mad at anybody for knowing more than you do. It’s not their fault.”
“Elizabethtown (KENTUCKY) News” quoted in “Other Suspects I Quotes not by GKC” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #2 (Nov./Dec. 2024)
“Tim Flannery’s predictions have aged like fine milk.”
“Topher Project Ep 110” commentary by Topher Field on Flannery’s recurring media-friendly predictions that Australia would succumb to drought 4/7/25 [https://youtu.be/5tatwHXlk6M?t=230]
“Chef Andrew Gruel”
The subject of a sponsored email via Human Events August 8, 2025 from the American Conservation Coalition, on “A Chef’s Take: How we fix our food and our planet”