Theres nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

The sweet fragrance of a fresh New Year!

If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.

I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.

You kill -- You die." That was probably the most naive thing I've ever said. The fact is -- in most cases, NOW, the way things are -- you kill -- you LIVE.

The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.

The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult.