I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to you.

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

So many things can be filtered through fandom - joy, compassion, love.

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.