Writing is making sense of life.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.

I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.