When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're a hunter, and build towers to watch the animals move. I knew I would never understand the world without that perspective. I came to Africa for that rational reason, although I love Mozambique now.

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.

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

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

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.

The evil always comes from details.