Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

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.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

Empowerment is never about blame

The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.

If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck.

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

I'm tired of screwing up. I'm tired of being down. I'm tired of myself. I'm tired of bein' down.

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.