Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.

Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.

Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.