Africa has no future.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.