From Zoe

"for the first time, there burst upon me the idea that there might be real marvels all about us, that the visible world might be only a curtain to conceal huge realms uncharted by my very simple theology. And that started in me something with which, on and off, I have had plenty of trouble since—the desire for the preternatural, simply as such the passion for the Occult. Not everyone has this disease; those who have it will know what I mean. It is a spiritual lust; and like the lust of the body it has the fatal power of making everything else in the wold seem uninteresting while it lasts." - C.S. Lewis

(“Surprised by Joy,” Harcourt Brace, 1955, pages 58-60.)