“When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Everyone wishes they could speak again to those who've gone to the land of the dead.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding… — philip pullman Copy Share Image
“I guess you are,” said Lee. “You have a strange way about you, Dr Grumman. You ever spend any time among the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“At Gabriel College there was a very holy object on the high altar of the Oratory, covered with a black velvet cloth...… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of what we… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it? — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The question authors get asked more than any other is "Where do you get your ideas from?" And we all find a way of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,” said the witch, “or die of despair.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
