No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
Weitere Zitate von C.S. Lewis
Zum Autor"The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong."
"To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else."
"My prayer is that when I die, all of hell rejoices that I am out of the fight."
"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal."
"If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will - that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings - then we may take it (that) it is worth paying."
"The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall."