The sons of dreams outlive the sons of seed. - Mary Renault

It's only since it's been made impossible that it's been made so damn easy. It's got like prohibition, with bums and crooks making fortunes out of hooch, everyone who might have had a palate losing it, nobody caring how you hold your liquor, you've been smart enough if you get it at all. You can't make good wine in a bathtub in the cellar, you need sun and rain and fresh air, you need pride in a job you can tell the world about. Only you can live without drink if you have to, but you can't live without love.

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

We shall either find what we are seeking, or free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.