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.

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.

What do you think of allthis, darlin’? Will you be my soul mate?

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

Running water never grows stale.

I'm the kind of guy that I never forget my teammates.

I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.

When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and tell my stories. I've always thought of that as what I do: I tell stories.

Father-daughter has a lot of layers, I find.

I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.