Quotes by : Philip Zaleski

As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion....

We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind....

A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.....

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

The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing....

Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.

Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.

Shame and suffering, as St. Bernard says, are the two ladder-uprights which are set up to heaven, and....

Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual....