I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.

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.

What’s the likelihood? That the one girl who makes my heart race is the one girl who wants me in return? That the accident of my attraction coincides with the accident of hers?

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

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

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