In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield

— Philip Zaleski

I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: "Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him." And they cried out in a great voice: "He made us." CS Lewis

— Philip Zaleski

It's not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand.

— Philip Zaleski

J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard, and we were the feasting, listening guests.

— Philip Zaleski

J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.

— Philip Zaleski

Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world.

— Philip Zaleski

Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note-taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.

— Philip Zaleski

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

— Philip Zaleski

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

— Philip Zaleski

Like all great readers, he could create for himself a "wall of stillness".

— Philip Zaleski