If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.
I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.
Fundamentally, as human beings, we're very, very alike and a lot more alike than we think, but we have a tendency to divide the world into them and us. In prison, when people commit a crime and we put them away, they definitely become "them. " We don't want to deal with it because they have chosen to step out of society, so we're going to keep them out. Even if they serve their time, we're going to make sure that, for the rest of their lives, they're going to be branded. I don't know how to do it in a different way, but I think it clearly doesn't work.
We all would like to think that we would never, in a million years, have a glass of wine and get behind the wheel of a car, but it could happen, and then you could run a red light.
I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.
When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.
Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics.
Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.
I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop. . . . Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.