Foreign Grid

“I should like to save the Shire, if i could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien

“What we all dread most is a maze with no centre.”
― G.K. Chesterton, A Father Brown Mystery: The Head of Caesar

“The first principle is that nobody should be ashamed of thinking a thing funny because it is foreign; the second is that he should be ashamed of thinking it wrong because it is funny. The reaction of his senses and superficial habits of mind against something new, and to him abnormal, is a perfectly healthy reaction. But the mind which imagines that mere unfamiliarity can possibly prove anything about inferiority is a very inadequate mind.”
― G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America

“It's the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.”
― Jordan B. Peterson