Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.

you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.

Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.