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

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

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

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 think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly.

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

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.