Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes were shining, his face was solemn, his hand was on his sword-hilt, and he carried his head high. Jill felt like crying when she looked at his face. And Jewel whispered in the King's ear, "By the Lion's Mane, I almost love this young warrior, Calormene though he be. He is worthy of a better god than Tash.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?