Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God

Freedom is the choice to be free than to be a slave.

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.

Like most bad ideas, it started with alcohol.

The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.

We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.

A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.

Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.

I think there are families that are very kind and supportive of people's ability to change. People who come from such families may go through life without dipping into the dark night.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.