From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

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.

Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.

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.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.