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

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?

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.

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.

When you fill yourself with inner joy and inner peace, this world becomes peaceful.

Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.

Religion is not so bad, unless you believe it.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.

My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.

If you don't like the reflection. Don't look in the mirror. I don't care.

So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.

Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.