Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

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.