Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.

If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal.

Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.

Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.

He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa.

No matter how successful or great you become, never forget that you are nothing without the mercy of God.

She might have acted like she didn't know.But she knew, a woman always knows

A CIO as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer” has creative, logical, hybrid, and abstract thinking traits.

All my friends are bums. We all gather round our camp-fire (in a can) and sing songs of togetherness as we cuddle, to preserve our warmth...

I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.

I'm living such a lucky and blessed life and I'm trying my best to deserve it.