It was a rich place: as rich as plumcake.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

this is a book about something

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.

That's all YOU know, ' said Digory. 'It's because you're a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged.

That was what it felt like - as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although nothing had ever happened.

Pride and love can't live in the same heart

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.

I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God. I submit myself to His direct will, which is good and perfect with no evil in it.

The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

I'm just some lunatic macaroni mushroom, is that it?

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.