South Africa is a country built on possibility. Possibility lies in making a difference and creating value from a situation - without denying that certain issues exist.
Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.
It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.
I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.
The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.
Films that I want to do are few and far between.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.
Why don't you go get in bed?" I stood, laying my hand on his chest and staring up at him. "Is that a dare?" He laid one hand over mine and pull me closer with the other. Leaning down, he kissed me gently. "It absolutely is. No falling out of it allowed, though.