Kevin

“To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.”
― Athol Fugard, Tsotsi

“Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it; those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow [...] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes”
― Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“-only human beings can recognize catastrophes, provided they survive them; Nature recognizes no catastrophes.”
― Max Frisch, Man in the Holocene

“A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road