Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

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.

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

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.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.