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

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

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.

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.