Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting

The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it.

Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.

Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam.

I really wanted to believe that there were these magic celestial bodies that would direct my life, tell me what to do, and it turns out it's not stars, it's some bits of screwy DNA. I'm just meat with faulty programming.

The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.