One cannot underestimate boredom as an incentive to write.

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.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.

Too much is unwholesome.

Just Detach From False Mental Objects And Be Enlightened To Being-As-Is

In LA, I live on sushi or salad.

I'm really not into that super-crazy-colour, smiley-faces-on-the-front-of-your-dress look. That's not my thing. You're not going to see me in pink. Or anything frilly. Or a tutu. Or bows.

You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique.

I'm glad I didn't know certain things earlier, because then it wouldn't be any fun.

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.