I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it... - C.S. Lewis

"Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny."

"Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life."

"A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation."

"When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand."

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."