He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh, Adam's son, how cleverly you defend yourself against all that might do you good!

Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.

He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said: "No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of 50 and beyond.