Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.

We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut.

My mind immediately shot to South Africa the moment I sat down to think what I was going to write, what I was going to say. There was no other choice.

The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.