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.

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

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn't speak publicly.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.