With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?