Quotes from Philip Zaleski

Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.

Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.

Lewis spoke for almost every member when he said, There is no sound I like better than adult male laughter.

Tolkien believed that while myth and fairy tale must reflect religious truth, they must do so subtly, never depicting religion as it appears in "the known form of the primary 'real' world.

Lewis was "the best read man of his generation, one who read everything and remembered everything he read

The great thing is to be always reading but never to get bored—treat it not like work, more as a vice!

In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God

He dithered but never dallied.

Elen síla lúmenn' omentielmo ("A star shines on the hour of our meeting").

I'm grateful that on my father's side I'm descended from a practical Welsh farmer. To that link with the soil I owe whatever measure of physical energy and stability I have.

their great hope was to restore Western culture to its religious roots, to unleash the powers of the imagination, to reenchant the world through Christian faith and pagan beauty. How