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.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

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

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

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

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

Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

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

So the stories aren't just stories, is what you're saying. They're really secret knowledge disguised as stories.""One could say that of all stories, younger brother.

Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction

The few Americans he had encountered in his lifetime had all seemed flat to him, as if freedom weakened one's capacity for intense emotion by demanding too little of it.

We're all drowning, but don't say it out loud.

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible

Fighting for ourselves means manufacturing our own weapons of self-defense.

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

McLaren started as the dream of one man, and it's since grown to encompass the hopes and dreams of more than 2000 men and women.

We all know the moon isn't made out of green cheese...but if it was made out of barbeque spare ribs would you eat it?