it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.

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

Music has no limits of a life-span.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

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

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 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. If something happens where I live, you see it tomorrow or perhaps even at the same time it is happening there. It's not "one world" in the sense that conflicts are resolved in the world. But we are more one world in that we know what is going on and are psychologically influenced by what goes on around us.