“It is better to be a lively frump than a stylish corpse.”

Source: The Sound and the Fury

Source: Clockwork Prince

Time Enough for Love (1973)

Roran, on the cause of the Varden
Inheritance (2011)

This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I've come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 45

Quoted in Scott MacLeod, "South Africa: Extremes in Black and Whites" http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975037,00.html, Time, March 9, 1992, p. 38
Quoted in "The Mind of Black Africa" (1996) by Dickson A. Mungazi, p. 159

Call to the Nation

Running Away, from the album Kaya
Song lyrics