Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.

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 friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.

If you're in California and it's raining, stay home, because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

Limbs of a dismembered poet.

I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.

Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

Some girls have crazy eyes. You can spot that!