What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPoets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPosting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable
Gilbert K. Chesterton