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.

As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.

I never talk about what I'm writing about currently, never. It's private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa

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.