“The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“'But why,' (some ask), 'why, if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking about a phantasmagoric never-never land of your own?' Because, I take it, one of the main things the author wants to say is that the real life of men is of that mythical and heroic q…”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“If you are tired of the real landscape, look at it in a mirror. By putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it. As long as the story lingers in our mind, the real things are more themselves. This book applies the treatment not on…”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com