Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

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

Africa has no future.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.