“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.”

“It is not fore nothing that you are named Ransom.”

“That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.”

“Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.”

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

“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.”

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”