Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.

I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.

I no longer run barefoot.

Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

There were always a couple of loonies who caused all the trouble.

She hasn't run faster than herself before

While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort

Walking on a road without seeing and planning for what's down the road will almost certainly catch you off-guard and may turn out to be a harsh blow, sometime or other.

Show business got really tainted for me.

The material presence of the work only serves as a conveyer launching an invitation to the observer to take part of the comprehensive game of the thousand and one emotions and visions.

It's the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

I believe a writer's most important skill lies in being able to see things from different perspectives.

I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.