The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.

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.

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.

We wonder with our thoughts to our sacred-destination

The ignorance of the world often makes people believe that life should be black and white – that you must choose sides – and so the world of colourful gradients goes unadmired.

And everything I thought I knew - you made me trade it all for you...but, frankly, you're not worth it.

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.

There is no authority but yourself.

Water holes are sacrificial waters where you make a steady gift of your pride and high-priced balls.