Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.