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

In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

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

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.