"Human is human. We’re blood, bone, emotion, piss, shit, love. Skin colour shouldn’t be what trips you up as a writer …"

"First rule of writing is to read everything you can get your hands on to fill your head with ideas. And then, once yo…"

"We used to believe that the highway went somewhere, that over the horizon was escape, places we'd never been and thou…"

"Joe Saviour once told me that every life has a legend. Before the soul comes down to earth, God seals a story inside …"

"Sizane, you gave your girls the wrong names. Thulisile means 'quiet one' but she talks, talks, talks..."

"In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being: he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act …"

"We suffer from a hubris of the mind. We have abolished superstition of the heart only to install a superstition of th…"

"Men are never alone because that which, acknowledged or unacknowledged, dreams through them is always by their side."

"It is the not-yet in the now, The taste of fruit that does not-yet exist Hanging the blossom on the bough."

"Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril."