“the religious worldview conforms to the most successful plot device ever conceived – namely, a happy ending that blossoms from difficulties necessarily confronted and overcome.”
Huston Smith Why Religion Matters
Neddie Seagoon: "Any revenues from it, I'll split in two and keep both."
Dennis Bloodnok: “Well, one doesn’t get an offer like that every day.”
The Goon Show "The Great Regent's Park Swim"
“Stories of magic... express my sense that life is not only a pleasure but a kind of eccentric privilege.”
G.K. Chesterton in “The Ethics of Elfland” in Orthodoxy, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #3 (Nov.-Dec. 2007)
“History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.”
Laurence J. Peter, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail February 16, 2005