At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.

A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.