When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.

There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.

...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

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.

New York is a glorious place for clearing your head and finding inspiration. Every time you step outside, you live a dozen lives.

Your life "behind the scenes" must correspond to your life "on stage." What you preach must correspond to how you live

Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.

O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!

Simple things don't interest me.

You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Hillary [Clinton] has been very guarded with the press.

Because the Scriptures say that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him, we need not conclude that a murderer cannot be saved. He can be if he will come to Christ and receive Him as Savior.