Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

A desert is a place without expectation.

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.