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

Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.

It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.

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.

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

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

A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.