“The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.”

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.

How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.

The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.

I cannot live without reading.

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.

Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

If a boy, if a man, asks you if you’re all right and you say yes, he’ll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It’s just the way they’re made.

Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?

There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.

How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.

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

You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said.

The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.

It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.

The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events.

It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.

The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.