The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.