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

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

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.

It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.

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

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.