Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
Communists are the last optimists.
Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.