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.

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.