I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.

You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.