I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. It was hardly a tune. But it was beyond comparison, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard.

What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.

This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.