I find that my greatest difficulty and the really most painful and difficult part of my work is draining and read more

I find that my greatest difficulty and the really most painful and difficult part of my work is draining and ridding my mind of that burden of meanings which I've absorbed through the culture-things that seem to have something to do with art but don't have anything to do with art at all.

Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves read more

Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves on to a next sentence until he's perfectly happy with one he's written before. So he'll struggle with the opening paragraph of a chapter for weeks. This is laborious, not to mention painful.

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem read more

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.

Our survey this year has definitely found improved profit levels emerging sooner rather than later, and this is very encouraging.

Our survey this year has definitely found improved profit levels emerging sooner rather than later, and this is very encouraging.

He's an unbelievable playmaker. He's just one of those kids who has a knack to make plays. Now he has read more

He's an unbelievable playmaker. He's just one of those kids who has a knack to make plays. Now he has to be a leader off the field, too, for our defense, and I think he's accepted that role.

I have to say that I got off very easy. There were incidents.

I have to say that I got off very easy. There were incidents.

He describes himself as a mild depressive, and he goes through just terrible suffering, much of it self-generated. And yet read more

He describes himself as a mild depressive, and he goes through just terrible suffering, much of it self-generated. And yet he's also an extremely buoyant person who finds a great deal in life to entertain and instruct and amuse him. He has a kind of vivacity about him. He's very funny, and he's very obsessed with certain themes.

From that moment onwards, I was in a position to win. I just had to keep it going because De read more

From that moment onwards, I was in a position to win. I just had to keep it going because De Villiers was not far behind.

Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.

Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.