People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.

When the print revolution occurred 400 years ago, human beings lost a certain mental capacity, including a sense of memory. In Africa today, you meet people who still carry everything in their heads, the way we used to. We rely on telephone books, address books. We have to look up everything.

My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.