Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.

I can be both of us at once so no one will have to miss her, most of all me. I I

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race?

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing.