Chesterton's Full Stop: Why Every Sentence Must End with a Point

Every story is a knife — it ends with a point.

G.K. Chesterton poignantly says that every sentence must end with a full stop.

“I think that every sentence must end with a full stop. That is why I carry a knife.”

Just like the knife he carried in his pocket ended with a point, so everything we say must end with a point. It makes no sense to start saying anything unless we know what we want to say from…