You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God’s myth where the others are men’s myths: i.e., the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call 'real things'.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.