Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in trouble and then the novel stops.

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to get us to see what is important in our lives.

My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

There is that great proverb - that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. That did not come to me until much later. Once I realized that, I had to be a writer. I had to be that historian. It's not one man's job. It's not one person's job. But it is something we have to do, so that the story of the hunt will also reflect the agony, the travail - the bravery, even, of the lions.