A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.

[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

Life's not all beer and skittles

in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

Love and truth are intimately connected. You cannot have pure love without pure truth and you cannot have pure truth without pure love.

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be

I love, and the world is mine!

By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

I'm the voice of honesty.

It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself

You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.