A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were, one corner of the curtain that hides its mystery, and reveals, in a burst of delight which later and fuller understanding can hardly ever equal, one glimpse of the indefinite possibilities within.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun.

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.