We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all."

A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling them away and give those people new ones; then they may astonish everyone, for they learned their driving in a hard school. Some of the last will be first and some of the first will be last.

Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.