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

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

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.

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.

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.

Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.

We have to be bigger than the things we suffer.

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

Music is reflection of self.

Everyone wants a hug and kiss. It translates into any language.

Basketball isn't a game; It's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters: getting buckets.

What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.

You're a disease. And I'm the cure.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.