With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.

More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle

I desired dragons with a profound desire.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.