Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts, ...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

It's what you do before you are in trouble, so that you can be strong when people most need you.

We're asking schools to look at kids as partners in education.

Pray, hope, don't worry.

The meaning of an artwork is changing depending on who's looking at it - depending on what culture, depending on what time, and so forth. It's alive.

Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.