Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.

When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after.