The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAll that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.
Gilbert K. ChestertonImagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
Gilbert K. Chesterton