Quotes from George Sayer

He valued these experiences of joy more than anything else he had known, and he desired, as all who have experienced them desire, to have them again and again. It was this mystical quality that set him apart from other boys. He was surprised by joy. He spent the rest of his life searching for more of it.

She wants to live simply and thinks luxuries little more than social display.

a radiant and infectious, almost childlike gaiety which was always bubbling over into delighted and delightful laughter.

The Second World War broke out within a few months of the publication of Rehabilitations and The Personal Heresy. Jack was then a man of forty. He had published seven books, of which only two were moderately successful. No one could have guessed that within a few years his would become a household name.

During one walk, Jack engaged in the first metaphysical argument that he can remember. It concerned the nature of the future: Is it like a line that you can't see or a line that is not yet drawn? He would delight in such arguments for the rest of his life.

To the end of his life he enjoyed traveling by train, the slower the better, and, if possible, in the front carriage.