“this is a book about something”

“There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the half-unconscious memories it brings back.”

“Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.”

“What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.”

“Truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is".”

“I do wish Slumtrimpet could do something about undermining that young woman's sense of the ridiculous.”

“It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests.”