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.

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

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 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.

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

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.