“To create is, first and foremost, to create time.”

Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy

As well as the prominent manifestation of a “class war” that is largely a continuation of the “race war” of yesterday.

There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.

If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.

The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.

When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day.

Yeah, at first people were talking about me. But now everyone is wearing their clothes more fitted.