"Without a higher vision to animate it, the secular conservative’s City on a Hill will have little to distinguish it from the secular liberal’s Upper West Side of New York."
George William Rutler “The Catholic Buckley” in He Spoke to Us
In my latest National Post column I choke on "raw water".
"Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves, will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not lie ready to their hand, they will make them. It is not those who have enjoyed the advantages of colleges, museums, and public galleries, that have accomplished the most for science and art; nor have the greatest mechanics and inventors been trained in mechanics’ institutes. Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty."
Samuel Smiles Self-Help p. 82.
"It’s my job to see that the chips stay up."
Bernard Woolley in "Yes Minister" when asked by Hacker whose side he would be on when the chips were down
"Looking back some folks might say I was successful/ That I shook the hands of kings and presidents/ And I surely think they’ll say I did my duty/ And struck a blow for love and common sense."
"Every Place I’ve Ever Been” on the album Guess Things Happen That Way by Cowboy Jack Clement
In my latest National Post column I defend the superhero fantasy scifi film Guardians of the Galaxy 2 against charges of racist sexist blah blah blah.
In my latest National Post column I say it's not reasonable to think the accelerating pace of technological and social change is remotely sustainable.
"There is too much tendency to turn your life into an essay. I propose to make mine a story."
G.K. Chesterton in "Notebook" while in art school, quoted in Garry Wills Chesterton