People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.

I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and social issues.

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.

Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn society in another direction.

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

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