It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end.

It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

There is never only one, of anyone

Giving up is the only sure way to fail.

When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was -- gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.

My favorite duo since Thelma and Louise. They got chops, heart, and soul stirring harmonies.

Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.