Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. - G.K. Chesterton

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."

"But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it."

"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."

"A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them."

"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."