Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.

Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

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.

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.