A Life of Wonder

I read Lewis as a child. I loved the myths he created –and as a child – savored reading them without having to analyze their meaning. Years later I read his biography, as well as the book he wrote grieving the loss of his wife. One line in the book moved me deeply, “Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”

A few favorite Lewis quotes:

“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say “infinitely” when you mean “very”; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”

“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”