"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 

In my latest National Post column I say the new Japanese drive-thru get-it-over-with funerals underline the emptiness of modernity.

"Strangely coinciding with human beings' ability to cooperate is our tendency to be extremely aggressive."

MSNBC Science June 5, 20125/6/12.

"You can’t have both the penny and the bun."

David Warren in Ottawa Citizen Nov. 25, 2006

"That’s the whole story of pitching. Keep your life and your pitching real simple, and you’ll get along."

286-game winner Robin Roberts quoted in John Thorn and John Holway The Pitcher

"The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."

G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Robert Moore-Jumonville in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 15 #1 (September 2011) 

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", quoted in Daniel Boorstin Cleopatra's Nose

"Learn your lines and don’t trip over the furniture."

Spencer Tracy's advice to young actors, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go