The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.

We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.

Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground…He [God] made the pleasure: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy [God] has produced, at at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He [God] has forbidden.

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

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