I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

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.

I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

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

Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.