A translator must, of course, be an interpreter of cultures.

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.

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

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.

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.

All paths eventually lead home.

A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.

Money can't buy life.

I'm suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

There are things you fantasize about doing and saying, and then ultimately don't because it's illegal.

I always get very calm with baseball.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.