A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.