C. S. Lewis Quotes

McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.

I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.

In the end, everything is a gag.

There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.

A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.

I just love well-organized, very serious nonsense.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

I just wish insignificance had more stature.

Nothing more than nothing can be said.

Please, Lord Maccon, use one of the cups. My delicate sensibilities.” The earl actually snorted. “My dear Miss Tarabotti, if you possessed any such things, you certainly have never shown them to me.

If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

My grandfather was a very insignificant man, actually. At his funeral his hearse followed the other cars.

"Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library."

The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.

You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick.

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. I implore you, send him back to his father and brothers, who are waiting for him with open arms in the penitentiary. I suggest that we give him ten years in Leavenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth.