“I’m covered with loser dust.”
Courtney Love, quoted in Ottawa Sun April 16, 2004
“Not then having learned the philosophy of yielding to disproportionate obstacles...”
Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail
“I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do.”
G.K. Chesterton in a letter to his fiancée, in which he confesses to being covered in ink after a day’s work, quoted by David W. Fagerberg in First Things March 2000
“Freud was once asked what he thought a normal person should be able to do well. The questioner probably expected a complicated answer. But Freud, in the curt way of his old days, is reported to have said: ‘Lieben und arbeiten’ (to love and to work). It pays to ponder on this simple formula; it gets deeper as you think about it.”
Erik H. Erikson, quoted in Brian Lee Crowley Fearful Symmetry
“A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.”
Cyril Connolly, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail August 7, 2009
“Hot weather is a classic example of being able to manufacture a problem that, in a very real sense, one may choose not to make a problem simply by ignoring it.”
Charles Murray in National Review March 30, 1992
“‘It’s impossible to know anything about God.’ You would have to know a great deal about God in order to know that you couldn’t know anything about God (I mean anything else about Him). At the least you would have to know either that He doesn’t exist, that even if He exists He doesn’t care whether you know about Him, or that even if He cares He is incompetent to tell us anything about Himself.”
J. Budziszewski "Underground Thomist" email “Reading an Empty Book” March 24, 2019
“I do so love fireworks. They are so unnecessary.”
John Gielgud, quoted by Richard John Neuhaus in First Things #153 (May 2005)