“the only way to enjoy even a weed is to feel unworthy even of a weed.”

G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Eric Scheske in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #1 (September 2000)

“Indeed, it would be paradoxical if the end were amusement; if we toiled and suffered all our lives long to amuse ourselves. For we choose practically everything for the sake of something else, except happiness, because it is the end. To spend effort and toil for the sake of amusement seems silly and unduly childish; but, on the other hand the maxim of Anacharsis, ‘Play to work harder,’ seems to be on the right lines, because amusement is a form of relaxation, and people need relaxation because they cannot exert themselves continuously.”

Aristotle Ethics

“Who am I that the children of men should have shaped and carved for me four extra wooden legs besides the two that were given me by the gods?”

G.K. Chesterton, “On Being Moved,” in Alberto Manguel, ed., On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G.K. Chesterton

“And now, as we birds say, nests before eggs.”

The Raven in C.S. Lewis The Horse and His Boy

“What’s the point of being a hedonist if you’re not having a good time?”

Lily Tomlin’s "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" show, quoted in The New Republic Oct. 7, 1991

“what William James charitably called ‘earnest and helpless minds.’”

Daniel Boorstin The Genius of American Politics

Re the iPod Canada site opening and having 700,000 songs “it’s striking that almost everyone I’ve asked took only about 10 minutes to discover what they couldn’t find. As they used to say on MTV, too much is never enough.”

Paul Wells in Maclean’s December 20, 2004

“There is no way a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.”

G.K. Chesterton, regarding his fiancee, quoted by Robert More-Jumonville in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 # 5 (March 2001)