"Certainly professionally, yes [I was interested more in history]. And literary criticism, the structure of poetry. But it is primarily as a historian that I work, although text criticism and literary criticism are very much a part of my interests."

“If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.”

“A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.”

“I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.”

Source : Speech to the Athenians, 432 b.c.; cited in Heinl, Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations (1966).

“Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Contemporary ramen is totally different than what most Americans think ramen should be. Ramen is not one thing; there are many, many different types.”

“The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.”

Source : C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I am MacWonder one moment and MacBlunder the next.”

“I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'”