Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.

The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.

I think music docs could turn off some people.

My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.

I dont think Sugar Man is a music doc any more than The Social Network is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

Success is not only one thing. Its not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.

I don't think 'Sugar Man' is a music doc any more than 'The Social Network' is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.

Story of civilization starts with reading, and story of creativity starts with writing

They can because they think they can.

Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only.

Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more.

When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.

Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

Close the language-door, and open the love-window

Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.

Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.

Quote: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?