In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

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

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

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

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.