Clive Staples Lewis

I don’t mean another planet, you know; they’re part of our world and you could get to them if you went far enough—but a really Other World—another Nature another universe—somewhere you would never reach even if you travelled through the space of this universe for ever and ever—a world that could be reached only by Magic—well

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

“You have not made the first joke; you have only been the first joke.”

For though the world is not five hours old an evil has already entered it.

Things always work according to their nature.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.”

you know how one can never quite overhear what He says to them

Thanks to processes which we set at work in them centuries ago, they find it all but impossible to believe in the unfamiliar while the familiar is before their eyes.

Evil can be undone, but it cannot ‘develop’ into good.

we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.