"I am a Christian, and of course what I write is, of course, Christian. I mean, I don't mean that I've tried to make it Christian at all, it's not Christian in that sense. It's not propaganda. It is a …"

"May your beer be ample and your days be merry."

"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its consistent int…"

"I am not a hero. I am a hobbit."

"An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the desire to write has to be given to him, and the means to write depends on his power to bring it out of himself."