Recovery is the ability to see things with clarity, "freed from the drab blur of greatness or familiarity – from possessiveness.

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.

A teacher's not going to bother being tough on you for no reason it's when they're not paying you attention that you should worry.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

The way to find your happiness joy is to make a list of all the things that are fun for YOU to do. Then do some of those things everyday.

If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.

Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha!

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

You need to motivate yourself, no matter what-definitely when things are bad, but also when things are good. Or else, you risk becoming complacent.

Talk to people about what our real choices are... Our way works better... Stick with us, keep talking and think how much better it will be if we keep going forward together.

We decided it here. Ilyich [Lenin] believed that we shouldn't leave the Whites a live banner to rally around, especially under the present difficult circumstances.