Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

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

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.

Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.