If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

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.

From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

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

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

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

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.