I have forsaken her for a place I will never belong, but will always remain under her spell, forever to be, a child of my motherland.

In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.

Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence.

Sometimes you have to cross the boundaries of Death in order to discover the meaning of Life.

My hand-stitched wings itchto take flightto test the winds of changethat inevitably blow at the end of a cycle.

Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.

Death descended like a theatrical storm over the Drakensberg Mountains, stranding me while it ran its course.

There are those whose love awakens our own and those whose love undermines. As long as we are blind to this fact, true love will elude us.

Get out of doors, Strange. Breathe air, see things. A man should have squint lines from looking at the horizon, not just from reading in dim light.

No amount of money can fill your heart up with what kindness and compassion can.

Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

Common decency is a core part of who people are.

The getting out part [of advise] may well be true. Because if you have tried the tender love thing... typically the abuser is not going to change until they are pushed in a corner.

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

I could never love where I could not respect.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.