the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

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.

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.

clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

We should be unshakable and uncompromising while we stand for God’s truth

Now if you are told that some piece of information will come as a shock to you, the chances are that you will really feel shocked, even if the information itself isn't of the slightest importance.

We do not make beams from the hollow decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

I've never had a 12-year-old try to explain to me about groove.

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage?