There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. – G.K. Chesterton
Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. – G.K. Chesterton
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. – G.K. Chesterton
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. – G.K. Chesterton
Catalogues of imaginary libraries are an obscure but fruitful area of collecting. The tradition of imaginary books, which exist only within other books, goes back at least to Rabelais, who invented a list of book titles for the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Gargantua and Pantagruel (c.1532). – Emi Hastings, “Catalogues of Imaginary Libraries,” 2014