I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.

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

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.

I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.