I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

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

We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.

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