In short, I had always believed that the world involved magic: now I thought that perhaps it involved a magician. And this pointed a profound emotion always present and subconscious; that this world of ours had some purpose; and if there is a purpose, there is a person. I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a storyteller.
–G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (p. 52)
