The idyll ended, as idylls must.

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.

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

I did not want vocal groups. I was not interested in singing with a group because there's too much problem with groups in the first place.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

The first step in the journey is to lose your way.

He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his head held high dies only once.

You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life.

Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.