Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.