As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.

All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity - their links with their dead and the unborn.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.