Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid a... - C. S. Lewis

"If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it."

"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."

"Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities."

"Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success."