"We can change South Africa on the rugby field"

“What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.”

“From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.”

“Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.”

Source : Source: deutsche-denker.de

“I draw inspiration from my travels, so I am always keeping my eye out for what is new in each corner of the country.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com

“Vampires are always going to be sexy.”

Source : "Jake Abel" by Lucy Madison, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2009.

“There was a show in Germany called Beat Club, and they had a lot of bands playing live. And I had this master plan, at 11 years old, I wanted to play electric guitar, but I knew... We lived in a small apartment, there was no way that was going to happen. I told my parents I wanted a classical guitar and I wanted to start studying classical guitar. So then a few years later, I think around 16 or so, I started playing electric. But that was my, my plan as an 11 year old. I thought I was so crafty.”

“one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that because we are materially richer we must be emulated without question? What compels us to infect everyone else with our own sick urgency to change, soften and standardise? How can we have the effrontery to lord it over peoples who retain what we have lost - a sane awareness that what matters most is immeasurable?”

“Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it lies instinctively, lies because its nature does not allow it to do anything else.”