Like all great readers, he could create for himself a "wall of stillness".

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.

If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.

Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

I enjoyed working with everyone on the cast [of the Ghost Team]. We knew we were making a pretty weird movie.

I vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting.

We need to demonise soda, the way we've demonised cigarettes.

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.