Leon Lazarus > Leon's Quotes

“Growing old is not a given. It is a true privilege that too many of the people in my life never got to claim... Every grey hair I earn, I earn on behalf of the ones who didn't get the chance to grow into their own.”
― Leon Lazarus, Barking at Dogs: Ghosts, lion dung, toast collecting, and other tales from the ragged edges of late-apartheid South Africa.

“No story is ever wheeled out without being altered, just a little. If you were there and you remember things differently, you just proved the rule.”
― Leon Lazarus, Barking at Dogs: Ghosts, lion dung, toast collecting, and other tales from the ragged edges of late-apartheid South Africa.

“This warm summer night felt uniquely South African to me, a strange mix of serene beauty and deeply ingrained paranoia.”
― Leon Lazarus, Barking at Dogs: Ghosts, lion dung, toast collecting, and other tales from the ragged edges of late-apartheid South Africa.