"I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't thin…"

"And everyone wants to know: Who? Why? The victims ask the hardest of all the questions: How is it possible that the p…"

"It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt."

"[About Madonna] I disagree. Nor do I agree with the association of Madonna's name with the title of her LP Like a Vir…"

"I could have had a career in cinema. It was difficult to reinvent myself as a singer. I have a weak voice. I can swin…"

"I do yoga and meditation. I'm a vegetarian and I've given up alcohol."

"It's better to be the one who leaves than the one who is left."

"My recurring dream, for many years now, is of a giant wave about to crash onto a beach where I am with a group of fri…"

"I discovered Buddhism during my mother's illness, when I moved to the United States to care for her. It's hard to see…"

"My hair has always been my strong point, everyone wondered who took care of it: instead, I trimmed it myself with sci…"