Father! Blessed word.

Memory is a wilful dog. It won't be summoned or dismissed but it cannot survive without you. It can sustain you or feed on you. It visits when it is hungry, not when you are.

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.

[Harriet Tubman] lived such a full, complex, and irrefutably-dynamic life that all the craft in the world would be insufficient in honoring her legacy.

So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.

Even the best fall down sometimes.

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.

If you tear open our heart, you will only see Rahul Gandhi...like Hanuman

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.