Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia,...
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.