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.

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.

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

Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

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

Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.