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

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.

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.

One sits down first one thinks afterwards.

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.

Whether the gods are inside or outside makes very little difference to whether there are gods.

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.

If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.