"When we are asked why eggs turn to birds or fruits fall in autumn, we must answer exactly as the fairy godmother would answer if Cinderella asked her why mice turned to horses or her clothes fell from her at twelve o’clock. We must answer that it is magic. It is not a 'law,' for we do not understand its general formula...."
G.K. Chesterton in “The Ethics of Elfland” in Orthodoxy quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #3 (Nov.-Dec. 2007)
"How gloomy would be these mansions of the dead [catacombs] to him who did not know that he shall never die..."
Imlac in Samuel Johnson The History of Rasselas, reflecting on how brief and futile even illustrious lives can seem
In my latest Mercatornet article, I discuss the improbably close link between the founder of the Protestant Reformation and post-modernism.
In my latest article for Looniepolitics I critique a Justin Trudeau press release seeking to appropriate an anniversary in someone else's religion.
"The narrowest hinge on my hand puts to scorn all machinery."
Walt Whitman, quoted in John Stewart Collis, Living With A Stranger: A Discourse on the Human Body
William "Blake could do so many things. Why is it that he could do none of them quite right?"
G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 # 3 (December 2001)
"If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?"
Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Paine, date unknown, according to The Patriot Post Founders’ Quote Daily March 24, 2008 from Federalist.com
"I would not want to make you unhappy by detailing pain, but there is a crucial sort of difference between pain and the narration of pain. I am telling you what happened. If there is vicarious pain in knowing, there is actual peril in not knowing. In aversion lies a colossal risk."
Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer