Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?

It's the place to begin, always -- to return to home, literally.

Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.

Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.