Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.

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

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

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

Music has no limits of a life-span.

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.