He smiled, she smiled, they knew right away, this was the day they'd waited for their whole lives, for a moment the whole world revolved around one boy & one girl.

I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you.

And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.

When it gets a little hard to care, just think about Him hanging there.

Between now and then, 'til I see you again, I'll be loving you.

I never knew how quickly I would go from someone that you loved to someone you used to know.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. World's had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow...

The gods, " he said. "Imprisoned in a thought. And perhaps they were never more than a dream.

A hick town is one in which there is no place to go where you shouldn't be.

Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found

The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.

So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

Apart from life, a strong constitusion and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla