A desert is a place without expectation.

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

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.

About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.

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.

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

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.