The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

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.

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.

Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others.

The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.

I think the blood is spilling in Syria and it's mostly Muslims.

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place.

Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where we come from, where we must go, what path we must take in life.

Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.

I can get more out of God by believing Him for one minute than by shouting at Him all night.