"The consciousness of genius is bad for people."

Virginia Woolf in The Diary of Virginia Woolf, re Robert Graves, quoted in Raleigh Trevelyan’s Introduction to Robert Graves Goodbye to All That

"Religion makes us joyful about the things that matter. Fashionable frivolity makes us sad about the things that do not matter."

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News, February 16, 1924, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 3 #8, July/August 2000

"The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one’s life. But anyone who shrinks from this is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being."

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News October 21, 1905, quoted in Dale Ahlquist and Peter Floriani, Chesterton University Student Handbook

In my latest National Post column I say, from hearing a series of outstanding talks at Moses Znaimer's ideacity conference, that the future is here now.

In my latest National Post column I say controversies over things like high school dress codes show that we modern sophisticates can't even figure out why we're wandering about half-dressed.

"The king [Hrolf, to Bodvar] said, 'I knew when you came here that few would be your equal, but it seems to me that your finest achievement is that you have made Hott into another champion. He was previously thought to be a man in whom there was little probability of much luck.'"

The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki

"Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful."

Aldous Huxley, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail July 8, 2004

"I have always felt myself to be a stranger here on earth, aware that our home is elsewhere."

Malcolm Muggeridge in 1988, quoted in Joseph Pearce Literary Converts