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

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.

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.

Discouragement does not come to passive and indifferent people who lack initiative

Waves crack with wicked fury against me ship's hull while ocean currents rage as the full moon rises o're the sea." (Cutthroat's Omen: A Crimson Dawn)

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another.

But he’s an untouchable, Shirin.’ ‘He’s my Untouchable Prince Charming, then. Only I am allowed to touch him.

I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work.

I am very aggressive and very physical. On the field, I guess I am just plain mean.

If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.

Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.