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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The real Law of Attraction has many counterfeits which are more or less fascinating, but the results are worthless.

We will always have enough reasons to justify what we believe and what we do not believe.

Set your goals to paper and you are halfway there!

Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.

When I lose, I take it very personally.

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

Many count on their disadvantages to cover for them.

All you can do is the best you can do.

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of Apartheid everywhere around me.