He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

If you introduce the human figure you at once arouse either disgust or desire.

He lived on, miserable and misunderstood, as before, and increasingly lonely. One cannot write those words too often: Maurice’s loneliness: it increased.

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

Love had failed. Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. it could not do things.

I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.

Too late... everything's always too late.

Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.

Those whom you spend most of your time with, and the voices you allow to influence your thoughts, play a significant part in who you become and the future you have.

Always watch your attitude, never forget to express your gratitude.

Draw me October on the window with rain.

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

There's always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham.

Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word has a big question mark over it.

Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.

The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.

No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.