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

For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.

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 can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

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

My essential identity is that of a writer.