Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.

Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.

Writing is making sense of life.

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

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.

In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.