A Christian atmosphere is no protection against preening egos.

— Philip Zaleski

A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.

— Philip Zaleski

A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.

— Philip Zaleski

All images and sensations, if idolatrous mistaken for Joy itself, soon honestly confessed themselves inadequate. All said, in a last resort, "It is not high. I am only a reminder. Look! Look! What do I remind you of?" CS Lewis

— Philip Zaleski

A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all.

— Philip Zaleski

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

— Philip Zaleski

As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

— Philip Zaleski

A translator must, of course, be an interpreter of cultures.

— Philip Zaleski

A very small class of books have nothing in common say that each admits us to a world of its own that seems to have been going on before we stumbled into it, but which, once found by the right reader, becomes indispensable to him.

— Philip Zaleski

Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.

— Philip Zaleski