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.

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

Communists are the last optimists.

Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.