Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.

We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

Freedom always comes with a price.