I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness: you are not needed there at all. No scope for your talents: only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God.

No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.

Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.