As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.

A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.

We must picture Oxford, during World War I, not as the neomedieval paradise it would like to be, but as the military compound it was obliged to become.

The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis

Now he must put into practice all his fine poetic thoughts about romantic love.

Passion does not translate easily into good income.

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

I wondered if having conversations with your dog was less crazy than babbling to yourself when no one else was around. I guess it depended on whether or not the dog answered.

Aleksar Greene was a boy I used to play with. He was my imaginary friend.

I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

I want to attract the best people into teaching.

The land of opportunity spawned a whole new breed of men without souls.

Some of you had big dreams, but you had some disappointments & now you think it’s over. But God is saying, Begin again.

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.