Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.