Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.

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?

I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.