But everything is how it should be. How's that for wisdom?

The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.

There are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace.

Old age is having the name of a chiropractor in your wallet. It's cutting out coupons for the zeal of discounted small items and the practice of fine motor skills.

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

The first thing fading is your beautythe least trustworthy is your minddown here on this earthnothing's of any worth—in the end

Their hands are tied not by ropes but by the greed of the intermediaries that the system has generated, who eat up the farmer’s income while it is on its way into his hands.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.

We (the ANC government) have no plans to introduce the wholesale administration of these drugs in the public sector. ARVs are not a cure for Aids.

Being successful is something that's sometimes hard to deal with.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.