A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. – G.K. Chesterton
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? – G.K. Chesterton
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. – G.K. Chesterton
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. – G.K. Chesterton
I really would like to stop working forever—never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now—and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends…. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence. – Allen Ginsberg
Most of my actor friends dont believe its possible to let go of it and be happy, and for a while that was true for me. For the first two years I ached, every day. And I had such bad dreams. But then I made the decision to start working on my little shop and all that went away. – Genie Francis