Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

... strong bonds are forged in high emotional temperatures.

apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.

perhaps there is something more than courtesy behind the dissembling reticence of childhood. ... Most artists dislike having their incomplete work considered and discussed and this analogy, I think, is valid. The child is incomplete, too, and is constantly experimenting as he seeks his own style of thought and feeling.

I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.