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"The open mind is really a mark of foolishness, like an open mouth."

G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Jim Hurlbert in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 7 # 7 (June 2004)

"people who think of the All, and only of the All, have, as far as I have seen, a tendency to become like the worshippers of a tadpole. They are worshipping something heartless, brainless, bodyless, something that is everything and nothing, something that has not the power of giving anyone that shock of reality which we can get from a woman’s face or a sting of pain. They do not love their god as monks love Christ; they do not fear him as savages fear Mumbo-Jumbo. And out of them comes that horrible universalism, that freezing and theoretic philanthropy which is the worst of the modern evils."

G.K. Chesterton in Daily News March 24, 1904, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #5 (March 2004)

"He fell so hard for her, he even lost his balance at the bank."

Kirk Kirkpatrick, quoted in The Write File Quarterly Issue #5, Summer 1995

In my latest National Post column I ponder the sad naivete of Christie Brinkley finding it hard to meet a nice guy at age 63.

“Now, observant Jews and Muslims have strict laws governing their diets, but Christians generally do not. Yet here we were, discovering a hidden connection between fidelity to our religion’s demands and the kind of food we ate. As we came to see in time, the separation between our political and moral convictions and the lifestyle choices we made was by and large an illusion. Just as ideas have consequences, so do actions.”

Rod Dreher Crunchy Cons (on discovering that a healthier diet made Catholic family planning work better by making his wife's cycle more normal)

My latest for The Rebel.