She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams

Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam.

Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.

There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.

Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it.

The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it.

Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.

Only other people can make you feel real.

Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.

There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

I should have shouted "No" and left him. "But at least" said Satan in the deeps of my mind, "know what the temptation is before you do anything hastily.

Hitler was a teetotalitarian.

Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.

I would like to have a home in the country that I could go to. First in this country and the other in the Mediterranean.

A brand is a person’s gut feeling about a product, service or organization

The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

Chris Huhne is a remarkably successful and powerful minister

Never let a good crisis go to waste