I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly.

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.

The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

The Tanakh teaches that, “The diligent will rule, while the lazy will be put to forced labor”. Most Jews work for themselves and hire employees instead of being employees.

Calm yourself and you calm your storm.

Moments like these are fleeting, and we have to grab onto them while we can. From the instant I saw you, I wanted to give you my heart. But today I’ll settle for giving you a flower.

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that whatever weirdness was going to be in there, I felt, had to be earned. And it had to be required by the emotional needs of the book.

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

When I'm working in the real world with real women and we're shopping, we find that fashion seems to end when you get any larger than a size 12. How ridiculous is that?