Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world.

The evil always comes from details.

Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.

Have I ever written anything that has really changed something? What I believe is that you can't change anything without using art. I believe that the drops wear away the stone. I try to be part of that army.

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.