“Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.”

“When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was -- gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.”

“They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.”

“If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.”

“Now that he was navigating, his celestial mood was shattered. Wild, animal thirst for life, mixed with homesick longing for the free airs and the sights and smells of earth-for grass and meat and beer and tea and the human voice-awoke in him.”

“What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.”

“You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of God in flowers or music.”