She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

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.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.