For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have done—a judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.

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

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

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

All men want their whores to be unhappy.