If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.

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.

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

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 human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).