Life's not all beer and skittles

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

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.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

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

Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

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