When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle this is politics this is anything.

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes or a lifetime.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that for a minute the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize things that I said yesterday with nobody paying too much attention I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Peace of mind for five minutes that's what I crave.

I get those fleeting beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes every four minutes.

You can have great sequences with music but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored but you're like 'So what?'