A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.

Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.

We must picture Oxford, during World War I, not as the neomedieval paradise it would like to be, but as the military compound it was obliged to become.

The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis

Now he must put into practice all his fine poetic thoughts about romantic love.

Passion does not translate easily into good income.

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inhabited a fallen world, albeit one filled with God's grace.

I want to light the lights of patriotism.

To think deeply of simple things.

I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America.

Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration.

Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.

The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.