A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

Where do whites fit in the New Africa? Nowhere, I'm inclined to sayand I do believe that it is true that even the gentlest and most westernised Africans would like the emotional idea of the continent entirely without the complication of the presence of the white man for a generation or two. But nowhere, as an answer for us whites, is in the same category as remarks like What's the use of living? in the face of the threat of atomic radiation. We are living; we are in Africa.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

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

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

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.