As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, "Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar.

CS Lewis may make difficult questions accessible. I don't think he makes answers 'easy. – Debra Winger

CS Lewis's humor supported his exposition but never dominated or diminished it.

We are humanity, the banner read. Wrong. We’re pale reflections of it, weak shadows, distant echoes.

Bert knows it would take more than a little row to get between us. Because friends like us, like Bert and me, we'll always be together.

One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.

Envy is admiration laced with resentment.

Prayer is the pillow of religion.

Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

The Never Trumpers, many of them are establishment types or - and very important here - wannabe establishment types.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.