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.

I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.

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.

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!