A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.

A good romantic comedy is my favorite movie to watch.

I can't help you if you won't help yourself.

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.

There is a King Who is aware of every Mask you put on

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.