When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.

Communists are the last optimists.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.