In my latest National Post column I say art galleries should not hide paintings after some Muslims call them blasphemous.

"If the only way around distress is to stop loving, well, then, let us be men about it and settle for distress.”

Robert Capon The Supper of the Lamb (the reference is not just or even primarily to romantic love but to fondness for all good things such as food, whiskey etc.)

“the acknowledged Elizabethan habit of viewing history as a series of object lessons for present conduct.”

Sylvan Barnet’s “Overview” in the 1986 Signet Classic edition of William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

“If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, 'What would I do if I were a horse?'"

"[E]conomist Ely Devons via economist Ronald Coase via economist Hernado de Soto" according to William Watson in National Post December 29, 2001

“The river of human nonsense flows on forever.”

G.K. Chesterton, “A Sermon on Inns,” in The Flying Inn, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #1 (September 2003)