“If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.”
“There’s hardly anybody who doesn’t hate somebody now, and nobody at all whom somebody doesn’t hate.”
“We need a person whom we can make our little god on this earth, as the old Kgatla saying had it. Whether it was a spouse, or a child, or a parent, or anybody else for that matter, there must be somebody who gives our lives purpose.”
“There is very little in this World somebody can't make a little worse and a little cheaper.”
“I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.”
“Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it. How optimistic is that?”