"I can't imagine a man really enjoying..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.”

“Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!”

“Human intellect is incurably abstract.”

“I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.”

“At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all.”

“it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.”

“It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.”

“The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.”

“Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.”