All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.

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

About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

The facts are always less than what really happened.