Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.

Art should be on the side of humanity.

Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly for ever.

Naming is like putting a stamp on something and fixing it. A kind of formaldehyde sort of fixation, but it becomes dead, sitting there forever, frozen. So, I'm not a great one for these modernist, post modernist, post colonial labels. I think they serve certain purpose. You do need some kind of sign post here and there, but it can also become an end in itself.

Once you have really done all you can, then you can show it to people. But I find this is increasingly not the case with the younger people. They do a first draft and want somebody to finish it off for them with good advice.

Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.