“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.”

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”

“Boredom, like beauty, is in the mind of the beholder. ’There is no such thing as an uninteresting subject,’ said Chesterton. ’The only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.”

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

“It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.”

“There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.”

“The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.”