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

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

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.

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.

She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

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

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

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

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 way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her.

Gold, or at least the prospect of it, saved him, then killed him.

You're my present and my future Sadie, I will use whatever power I have to make you happy.

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.

My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

I know, we can barely fit them in. That is a big challenge. Treating four lead characters equally, within a 30-minute format, is definitely challenging.

The truth usually has a slightly ugly look.

He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.