Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

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

Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

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.

I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.

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

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