He trusted the cosmos – but not necessarily the powers that held sway on earth.

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.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. And I had thought the thought.

The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.

Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.

To me, is the way to make the most impact - let the actions speak louder than the words.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.

Life without dreaming is a life without meaning.