Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.

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

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

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

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.

Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people have not quite grown accustomed to tourists. You still feel a genuineness that no longer exists in countries where tourism has been industrially developed.