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

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.

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.

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.

Each of us has the ability to invent

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

If liberals think they are losing elections because of the conservative bias in the media, they may as well give up right now.

Fine! I'll throw on some clothes. Turn around. I'm in my pj's" "I'm a guy. That's like asking a kid not to glance at the candy counter.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.

Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.

The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average.

I dream of making India a $20 trillion economy. For that, I am pushing for agriculture, manufacturing and service sectors.

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.