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

They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.

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.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

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.

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

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.