He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He's an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

I'm ... free-spirited. Maybe a little too free-spirited.

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.

I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I do keep trying to write.

Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?

Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes.

I don't jump in real life, why would I jump in a photo?

Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.