Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.

Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.

We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.

The success of the Inklings also helps us to see criticism in a positive light. There are, unfortunately, people who boost their own sense of importance by criticizing others as a matter of principle. Yet within this community, criticism was a mark of respect and commitment.

Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.

All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.