It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability.

We have so many ideas about things we have never tried.

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate the joy of being in love. Unless you're single & lonely then it's called Laundry Day.

I'm definitely not a "Fast and a Furious" guy.

I think if you watch a lot of what I do, you're going to ultimately walk away seeing me. I can't hide - that impression is a personal impression people have of me.

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.