Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.

A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.

People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.

I honestly thought my marriage would work because me and the wife did share a sense of humour. We had to really, because she didn't have one.

The less people know about me in reality, the more they can accept of me as a character.

There is someone for everyone, i'nt there. That's always my thing. And it's reassuring I think.

Separation is The Only Disease, It is The Cause—Everything Else is The Effect!

South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor.

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

Begin with the end in mind.