"The stage is a place where the dead return."

我天生不是一个政治人物。我不认为作家应该是政治人物。但在南非，你无法将政治排除在你的生活之外。

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

"To me, fearless is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death."

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Never underestimate the power of the human spirit.

The essence of architecture lies in its ability to create spaces that inspire and uplift the human spirit.