“Unfortunately, Miss [Susan] Sontag’s intelligence is still greater than her talent."
Gore Vidal "in a 1967 review of Death Kit, one of her largely forgotten novels" according to Ottawa Citizen December 29, 2004
"What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don’t believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all."
Charles Lindbergh, quoted in Patrick Moore, Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist
“There are many genuinely good finite things in this world, and even unbelievers can derive much pleasure from them: human love, and music, and the stars and the sea. But ultimately, Pascal is right: these are only well-mixed drinks served aboard the Titanic.”
Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal’s Pensées Edited, Outlined & Explained
“If I had only a single temporal blessing to wish you, I would not hesitate a moment: May you be spared long enough to know at least one evening of old friends, dark bread, good wine, and strong cheese. If even exile be so full, what must not our fullness be?”
Robert Capon The Supper of the Lamb
“The instinct of the human soul perceives that the fool may be permitted to praise himself, but that the wise man ought to praise God.”
G.K. Chesterton “The True Vanity of Vanities” in The Apostle and the Wild Ducks, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 “Nos. 1 & 2” Sept.-Oct. 2007
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."
Jim Rohn, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online (www.inc.com/jeff-haden/top-350-inspiring-motivational-quotes-to-tweet-and-share.html)
“I grant you that my children need their meals balanced…. My own feeling, however, is that they need something else even more. They need to have their tastes unbalanced: to have them skewed, driven off dead center, and fastened firmly on the astonishing oddness of the world.”
Robert Capon The Supper of the Lamb
“We are as Hector on the walls of Troy with Andromache and always have been. Only the Crystal Palace and all those nineteenth-century trust funds ever assured us otherwise.”
An author whose name I did not record in Chronicles magazine October 1991