One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

Africa has no future.

It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.

You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.

Small things start us in new ways of thinking

You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.