“... ons is daar om aan te roep, het u altyd gesê, om op te roep, te voorskyn te roep.”

“Het is zaak om uw website op een integere manier te optimaliseren. Bouw een site voor bezoekers en niet voor zoekmachines.”

“In de ene helft van ons leven offeren we ons leven op om geld te verdienen. In de andere helft offeren we ons geld om weer gezond te worden”

“Die liefde is ’n reus. Hy pas jou op, dra jou op die hande en verskuif jou grense. Maar as hy verwaarloos word, misgekyk word, as hy die dag loop lê, is daar bitter min van ons wat die gereedskap het om hom op te help, om hom weer in sy spore te laat staan.”

“First smile!! An unseasonal little shower of rain fell here, and a lot of butterflies drowned, so we put them in the sun and they came back to life, and flew up and then Agaat SMILED!”

“...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.”

“Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.”