No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.

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.

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.

Miracles are for beginners.

The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.