We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis

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.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.

Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.

Circles in water as they wider flow The less conspicuous in their progress grow, And when at last they trench upon the shore, Distinction ceases and they're view'd no more.

With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.

The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.

As an actor, that's nerve-wracking enough [drunk and doing coke] because you have to do it at the right level.

I'm not the sort of person who fears failure.

Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the accent itself.