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

in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

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.

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

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

What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.