"My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first" - Douglas Adams

Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking about a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.

You’re paid a lot and you’re not happy, so the first thing you do is buy stuff that you don’t want or need — for which you need more money.