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

I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn't speak publicly.

Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.

Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.

Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

Music has no limits of a life-span.

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.