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

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

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

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

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.

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

Astrologys a moving system that depends on where youre looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.