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

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

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

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

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.

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath.

Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

Here, in L.A., trust me, there will be fireworks from the canapés right through to the desserts.

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

What gets measured gets done, what gets measured and fed back gets done well, what gets rewarded gets repeated

I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.

Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.