Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.

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 get me started on critics.

There have been a lot of changes [in the fashion industry], of course. You just have to accept it and be strong.

You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

I think it's important to just be a good, honest person and be true to who you are.

Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.

I think it's a beautiful thing when you wear a uniform or a garb which represents a group of people, because what it immediately symbolizes is oneness, togetherness.

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.