Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.

If you have a religion it must be cosmic.

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery.

When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.

The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.